The Shanghai Cooperation Organization convened for its 25th summit in Tianjin on Sept. 1, the largest gathering of leaders in the organization’s history.

Black markets prolong wars, defang sanctions, fray alliances, and help rogue governments and groups survive and thrive.

Former secretary general Jens Stoltenberg recalls the rollercoaster ride of dealing with Donald Trump – and how close the US president brought the alliance to the point of collapse

However, his ANO party falls short of an overall majority in preliminary results.

The Big Ask | No. 40.2025

Declaring that NATO is on the cusp of dying is premature. It is far from moribund. However, while the Alliance will likely persist, this does not mean that it has a clean slate of health.

The Memorandum | No. 39.2025

The Liberal government has unveiled its long-awaited, long-promised agency to co-ordinate and speed up the purchase and delivery of equipment to the Canadian military.

Policy Forum Politique is a publication format that aims to stimulate debate by presenting a wide range of expert opinion on a topic of national security significance to Canada. For this second editio...

Ukraine's sustained drone campaign against Russian refineries has triggered a nationwide fuel collapse affecting at least ten regions from the frontlines to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Despite offici...

Moldova’s parliamentary election on Sunday was supposed to be an uphill battle for the ruling reformist, pro-European party, the European Action and

After months of disagreement over peace talks, the White House and several Kremlin propagandists are finally in unison about something — Russia's war in Ukraine is not going well for Moscow. "Russian...

Ruling party holds on to its majority in Sunday’s poll, which it says is ‘strong mandate for EU accession’

In this Policy Perspective, Amos Dossi and Mauro Gilli explain how serious efforts to rearm Europe should leverage all relevant industrial capabilities on the continent - including, not least, those o...

Russia has agreed to equip and train the PLA to air-drop armoured vehicles and special reconnaissance capabilities.

In an era of hybrid warfare, there is a sense of embarrassment that Denmark's critical infrastructure has become vulnerable.

Russia’s full-scale attack against Ukraine in February 2022 shattered many longstanding pillars of the European security architecture. One of the most profound changes relates to Germany’s approach to Russia and its role in securing NATO’s eastern flank. In light of Moscow’s aggression, Berlin pledged to strengthen its military footprint in the Baltic Sea region. In this process, has Germany met the expectations of its Baltic allies? In this paper, we seek to probe the views of Germany that go beyond the policy elite’s level. Based on an original face-to-face omnibus survey in Latvia that included 1002 respondents, we assessed the public opinion of Germany. Contrary to the views expressed by political elites in the region, our representative survey attests that at the societal level, Germany is valued and appreciated as a security actor. Latvians, based on our survey, are rather favorable toward future German leadership as a security actor and express trust in its military support. Our findings reveal certain divisions between the political elites and the wider society that ask for explanations beyond the different compositions in terms of demographic and socioeconomic characteristics.