Create an Unmanned Experimental Squadron and Learning System
This article was originally published by the Center for International Maritime Security (CIMSEC) on 6 May 2019. Introduction The U.S. Navy faces a future where large portions of its fleet will be...
View ArticleUrban Legend: Is Combat in Cities Really Inevitable?
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 7 May 2019. Future combat will take place in dense urban areas and likely in megacities, or so we are told. These are the new “truths” that...
View ArticleRussia as an Arms Supplier: Algeria and Egypt
This graphic highlights Russia’s role as one of the top arms suppliers to Algeria and Egypt. For an analysis of what this demonstrates about Russia’s reemergence as a power broker in the Middle East,...
View ArticleTop 10 Countries Affected by Chinese Non-tariff Trade Measures
This graphic of the week ranks the US’ most important trading partners and provides an overview of Washington’s volume of trade with each of these countries. For an analysis of the Trump...
View ArticleWashington’s Illusory Plan for Israel-Palestine
This article was originally published by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) on 5 June 2019. The United States is set to propose an economic plan for Israel-Palestine, spearheaded by Jared...
View ArticleWhen Norms Collide: Business, Human Rights, and Economic Development in Colombia
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 28 May 2019. This fall will mark three years since the Colombian Peace Accord between the government of Juan Manuel Santos and...
View ArticleInitiators and Defenders in Major Cyber Theft Incidents, 2000 – 2018
This graphic provides an overview of the nations in which major cyber theft incidents were initiated as well as the countries affected by these attacks between 2000 and 2018. To find out what this...
View ArticleHave Strategists Drunk the “AI Race” Kool-Aid?
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 4 June 2019. Has global strategic competition become a race for dominance in artificial intelligence (AI) between the United States and...
View ArticleEU Policy in the Face of the Chinese Challenge
This article was originally published by the Elcano Royal Institute on 6 June 2019. As the People’s Republic of China transforms itself into a technological and military superpower, while maintaining a...
View ArticleTrends in Armed Conflict, 1946–2018
This article was originally published by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in June 2019. The number of armed conflicts in 2018 was slightly higher than 2017 and much higher than ten years ago,...
View ArticleYesterday Warlord, Today Presidential Candidate: Ex-military Leaders Running...
This article was originally published by the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) on 13 June 2019. In many African countries where civil war raged not so long ago, former warlords are today running for office...
View ArticleExternal and Internal Trade: The EU and the EAEU Compared
This graphic shows how the the overall level of internal trade among the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) remains relatively low at 14.6 percent, especially when compared to the...
View ArticleThe Year 2025 Will Be Like 2019, Only More So
This article was originally published in The Strategist by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) on 13 June 2019. For ASPI’s 2019 conference, ‘War in 2025’, I was asked to identify the...
View ArticleMediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts: Small Steps to Peace
This article was originally published in Conflict Trends 2019/1 by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) on 24 June 2019. “The small is as important as the bigger...
View ArticleTop 5 Trading Partners of Algeria and Egypt
This week’s featured graphic provides an overview of Algeria and Egypt’s top trading partners. Russia’s absence from the top five trading partners list of either country highlights that despite...
View ArticleG20 Compact with Africa is a Long Game
This article was originally published by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) on 5 July 2019. Africa’s ‘development partners’ still struggle to define and manage their relationship with the...
View ArticleHow Can the Security Council Engage on Climate Change, Peace, and Security?
This article was originally published by the IPI Global Observatory on 20 June 2019. There are no shortages of statistics and data on the increasing rapidity with which our climate is changing, or on...
View ArticleBelt and Road Initiative 2.0: ‘Qualitatively’ Different?
This article was originally published by the East-West Center (EWC) on 11 July 2019. Following five years of periodic controversies and criticism – some factual, others contrived – President Xi Jinping...
View ArticlePublic Attitude Towards the EAEU
This graphic displays public attitudes in Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member states towards the creation of the organization. For more on role of the EAEU in Russia’s Eurasian strategy, see Jeronim...
View ArticleA People-Centered Approach to Conflict Resolution in Ukraine
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 3 July 2019. It’s rare to hear firsthand accounts of daily life amid the conflict in Donbass. But we do have a few. The photographer Paula...
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