Julianne Smith, who represented the United States at NATO during the Biden administration, argues that Russian hybrid warfare in Europe is escalating quickly, and NATO is not doing enough to deter it. Putin is attempting to discourage support for Ukraine and undermine faith in Article 5, and NATO is responding with an outdated playbook.
Whether nuclear capability continues to serve as a deterrent or has lost its deterrent capacity has, in recent years, become one of the central questions in the field of international security. Some analysts have also raised the question of whether the nuclear factor itself may have acquired a provocative character, writes professor Mehdi Sanaei. This […]
We are living through arguably the most dangerous geopolitical moment since World War II. What are the striking characteristics of this period of history, which began in the first or second decade of the 21st century? I believe we can highlight four points.
It was Bahr who devised, in 1963, the so-called Ostpolitik (“Eastern Policy”), which wagered on drawing the USSR closer to the West rather than polarising against it, writes Marco Fernandes. Late in life, Bahr called the Western choice of confrontation the “mistake of the century”, and said that NATO had become “an instrument serving the […]
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