NATO has always had a southern exposure. Today’s strategic environment provides a new context for this traditional question, but also raises fundamental questions of geography, alliance politics and a shared approach to risks.
More than half the Qur’anic quotations used by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in its propaganda are faithful reproductions of the text but incomplete or truncated.
The impact of cumulative innovation in technologies requires policymakers and experts to update the current methodology, concepts and tools for non-proliferation, exports control, restrictive measures, arms control and disarmament mechanisms.
There is momentum for increased security cooperation between Europe and Japan. Europeans and Japanese are ‘natural partners’ who consider a liberal and rules-based international order to be a core interest.
Spain’s Defence cannot avoid the structural trends and changes in the geopolitical context. The Elcano Royal Institute believes that Spain should reconsider the structural elements of its current Defence model and proposes the following criteria for Defence restructuring in Spain.
One fifth of the 230-235 jihadists who between 2012-2018 travelled from Spain to Syria and Iraq as FTFs have already returned.
For diplomatic institutions, protecting themselves against disinformation and propaganda by governments and non-state actors remains a problem. This paper outlines five tactics that, if applied with a strategic compass in mind, could be helpful for MFAs and embassies.
China is what really concerns the Trump Administration and it could be the main reason for the announcement to withdraw from the INF or Zero-Zero Treaty.
Cyberspace is a new domain for coercive operations in support of foreign policy and security with advantages for offensive actions and hindrances to its success.
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