Arquivos de 20 jul 2020

China and Russia are harvesting encrypted secrets—and getting closer to cracking them.

The alliance has survived 80 years of disagreement—and it will survive again.

How the Iran war will transform America’s military role.

The Baltic is a region increasingly characterised by unease and tension, fractured into hostile “fortresses” of military infrastructure by the NATO-Russia standoff. Igor Zhukovsky explores contemporary political and military conditions in the Baltic, calling for a renewed push to establish institutional frameworks that would uphold region-wide stability in the security dimension.

The US House of Representatives has passed H.R. 2548, a bill imposing sanctions against Russia in connection with the Ukrainian conflict. Its passage in the House alone increases, but does not guarantee, the chances of it being ratified into law.

United Nations Security Council (UNSC) reform is critical, as it is the core of international legitimacy for the use of force, sanctions, and peacekeeping operations. Yet it reflects a post-World War II power distribution, not a 21st-century one. When emerging powers do not trust the UNSC’s legitimacy, they will gradually ignore it and revert to […]