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☢️ Enduring lessons or outdated logic? Updating Europe’s nuclear thinking 

September 10, 2025

Lost in translation: why the West keeps misreading China

September 9, 2025

☢️ UK Strategic Defence Review: nuclear posturing does not deliver peace

September 5, 2025

Middle East escalation reveals Israel’s shifting strategy 

August 28, 2025

Toward a 'not-so-grand' security strategy for European defence policy 

August 27, 2025
August 21, 2025

Milei’s Argentina and the unmaking of diplomacy 

Consuelo Thiers Consuelo Thiers argues that Javier Milei is not merely shifting Argentina's foreign policy but dismantling its diplomatic institutions. As ideology replaces expertise, and institutional norms collapse, Argentina has become a stark example of how personalist leadership can upend international relations  Read more
August 20, 2025

Trump’s foreign policy playbook returns: what Europe must learn

Shamsoddin Shariati From escalating trade wars with the EU to snap ultimatums on Iran, Donald Trump's international playbook is startlingly predictable. Trump seeks not agreement, but surrender. Shamsoddin Shariati explains how Europe must now learn from this pattern, and respond with firmness, not concession Read more
August 19, 2025

☢️ The ultimate deterrent: modern strategic conventional weapons

Tom Sauer Nuclear weapons may no longer be credible deterrents in an era of hypersonic missiles and AI-driven warfare. Tom Sauer suggests that modern conventional weapons could ultimately replace nuclear arsenals, reshaping global security without risking nuclear annihilation Read more
August 18, 2025

NotPetya, Ukraine, and the limits of economic impact from cyber attacks

Tom Johansmeyer Tom Johansmeyer contends that the damage NotPetya caused in Ukraine is much smaller than many believe. A closer look at the $560 million in harm caused by that infamous cyber attack suggests that cyber attacks may only be of limited effectiveness. This, he argues, changes how cyber sits in the security environment Read more
August 4, 2025

☢️ The legacy of Kazakhstan's nuclear past 

Marzhan Nurzhan The people of Kazakhstan are still grappling with the toxic legacy of twentieth-century Soviet nuclear tests. Marzhan Nurzhan examines nuclear identity and decoloniality in Kazakhstan's atomic past, through the medium of visual art  Read more

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