Electoral Turnout in Russian Presidential and Parliamentary Elections, 1991 –...
This graphic tracks overall voter turnout in Russian presidential and parliamentary elections from 1991 to 2016. To find out more about voter turnout trends and electoral mobilization in Russian...
View ArticleAlgeria and Morocco’s Migrant Policies Could Prevent Violent Extremism
This article was originally published by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) on 27 February 2018. Legalising migrants can boost economic growth, improve international relations and prevent...
View ArticleToo Close for Comfort: European Geostrategy and the Transatlantic Alliance
The question for Europe now is whether it needs to de-couple its strategy toward regional great powers from that of the United States. Geopolitical competition has made a roaring come back in recent...
View ArticleClimate Conflicts: Myth or Reality?
This article was originally published by IPI Global Observatory on 5 March 2018. The specter of water wars has long loomed large in political and popular imaginations. With the end of the Cold War,...
View ArticleForeign Fighters who Travelled to Syria and Iraq Since 2011
This graphic traces both the numbers of foreign fighters who traveled to Syria and Iraq from North African countries, as well as those who have returned to their country of origin or residence since...
View Article10 Takeaways from the Fight against the Islamic State
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 12 March 2018. Nearly three years on from the Islamic State’s high water mark in the summer of 2015, there are several lessons that the...
View ArticleIncreasing International Cooperation in Cybersecurity and Adapting Cyber Norms
This article was originally published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on 23 February 2018. Without increased cooperation, the global digital economy is vulnerable to catastrophic cyberattack....
View ArticleEU-NATO Alignment after Brexit
This article was originally published by Carnegie Europe on 22 March 2018. After Brexit, there is no guarantee that the major powers in NATO and the EU will agree on how to respond to future crises....
View ArticleEstimated Global Nuclear Warhead Inventories 1945-2017
This graphic provides an overview of estimated global nuclear warhead inventories from 1945 to 2017. To find out about the Trump administration’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’ and what it means for US...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligent Agents: Prerequisites for Rights and Dignity
This article was originally published in Volume 2, Issue 2 of Age of Robots magazine on 6 March 2018. IBM’s Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer that achieved remarkable success in 1997 when it...
View ArticleLanding Stations of Submarine Cables in the US and China
This graphic maps the various landing stations of submarine cables in both the US and China. To find out about cybersecurity in Sino-American relations, see Marie Baezner’s recent addition to the CSS’...
View ArticleWhy Study Emotions in International Relations?
This article was originally published by E-International Relations (E-IR) on 8 March 2018. Looking around the globe today it does not take long to see that world politics is awash with emotions....
View ArticleThe Era of Urban Warfare is Already Here
This article was originally published by the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) on 21 March 2018. Aleppo. Mosul. Sana’a. Mogadishu. Gaza. These war-ravaged cities are but a few examples of a...
View ArticleThe Other North Korea Question: How Important is the Korean Peninsula to the US?
This article was published by the Lowy Institute on 29 March 2018. America’s leadership in the Asia Pacific was founded in the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and on its status as the first atomic...
View ArticleRussian Opinion Polls
This graphic depicts polling data on voter attitudes in Russia regarding the future course of Moscow’s domestic and foreign policy, collected prior to the country’s March 2018 presidential elections....
View ArticleRussia´s Propaganda War about Syria: How Pro-Kremlin Twitter Accounts...
This article was originally published by the Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) in March 2018. Moscow is keen to exploit the conflict in Syria in its information war against the West....
View ArticleNationalism, Persecution and Repatriation of the Rohingya
This article was originally published by E-International Relations (E-IR) on 5 April 2018. The incidents that took place in the Rakhine state (previously Arakan) of Burma/Myanmar in August 25 (2017)...
View ArticleControl of the Syrian Airspace: Russian Geopolitical Ambitions and Air Threat...
This article was originally published by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) on 14 April 2018. Russia has mounted its anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) footprint in the...
View ArticleThe Return of Geopolitics from a US Perspective
This graphic maps the great power and regional challengers to the US as well as key geopolitical hotspots of concern to Washington. For more on the domestic and international constraints threatening...
View ArticleMediation Perspectives: Partners for Peace
Mediation Perspectives is a periodic blog entry that’s provided by the CSS’ Mediation Support Team and occasional guest authors. Each entry is designed to highlight the utility of mediation approaches...
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