by Sven Biscop
‘The Germans never make a small mistake, because they are cautioned against all small mistakes in their manuals, without reference to which they seldom do anything whatever. But they can always be relied…
by Sijbren de Jong , Karlijn Jans , Willem Oosterveld
With its recent intervention in Syria, many claim that Russia scored yet another geopolitical coup. With the war in Ukraine stalling and Crimea firmly in…
by Judy Dempsey
Europe has to choose. The murder of 129 people during six separate terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13 is forcing governments across Europe to consider how to deal with the so-called Islamic…
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by Asa Winstanley
Last month the heads of four major Israeli arms firms warned their government of a "major crisis" in the…
by Brad Cabana
It has been just over a month since Russia took the military initiative in Syria. Along with fifty plus combat aircraft and helicopter gunships, Russian naval ships Moskva, Ladny, Pytlivy and Smetlivy…
by Soumaya Ghannoushi
Sunni Islam is in turmoil. Over the last two decades, it has been in the grip of ferment and fragmentation unprecedented in its long history. After the wave of radicalisation that had swept…
by Annika Hedberg
In September 2015, Gazprom and major European energy companies (Germany's E.ON and BASF/Wintershall, Austria's OMV, France’s ENGIE and Royal Dutch Shell) signed an agreement to double the Nord Stream gas pipeline’s capacity by…
by Anna Stavrianakis
Anna Stavrianakis critiques nation-centric theories that dominate International Relations as a discipline, as well as offering newer ways of studying the arms trade and emphasising the need for a more global approach.
September 2015, ExCel Centre,…
by Marco Trifuoggi
On October 14th, the European Commission has unveiled its new trade strategy, Commissioner Malmström’s latest effort to overcome the T-TIP impasse and relaunch EU trade. The text outlines several commitments that the Commission…
by Marc Pierini
Only a few weeks ago, the al-Assad regime seemed in danger of losing the swath of land from Latakia to Damascus to the assaults of the Islamic State of Iraq and the…