Proxy warfare is a strategic tool through which powerful states influence conflicts abroad while minimising direct military, political, and financial costs. This report outlines the evolution, types, benefits, and risks associated with prox...
The Russia–Ukraine war has inflicted profound environmental and energy consequences beyond its immediate human and economic toll. Military operations have damaged industrial sites, released pollutants, and generated an estimated 230 MtCO’e ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced Sergei Shoigu as defense minister, marking a significant Cabinet shakeup at the start of his fifth term. Shoigu will now serve as secretary of Russia’s Security Council. The move comes as Andrei...
The 2023 NATO Summit held in Vilnius, Lithuania, addressed many pressing issues affecting the transatlantic and global communities, including ongoing conflicts like Ukraine, security assurances for Kyiv, and NATO membership aspirations. The...
The global fertiliser prices hit all-time highs in the spring of 2022 following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February. The Russia-Ukraine conflict exacerbated an already precarious global supply scenario that began in 2020 with COVID-19-...
On July 27, 2022, a large group of Iraqi protestors led by the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attacked the Council of Representatives of Iraq building in Baghdad's Green Zone. The storming often referred to as the "Ashura Revolution" or the ...
G7 countries finally set the highly anticipated price restriction on Russian oil at $60 per barrel on December 3, 2022. This price ceiling applies to crude oil, petroleum oils, and oils derived from bituminous materials produced in or expor...
The People's Republic of China did not participate in any discussion on the international trade in weapons until the beginning of the twenty-first century. However, today a number of Chinese arms companies, such as the Aviation Industry Cor...
Former Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe unveiled a strategic framework for a free and open Indo-Pacific in 2016 which since 2017 has been propagated as the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy. With Southeast Asia being at the heart...
Hybrid warfare can be defined as a form of conflict that in addition to conventional military means includes irregular means of warfare like insurgent groups, guerilla forces, terrorist groups, etc. Such warfare includes both state and non-...
According to The New York Times, the European Union is contemplating "smart sanctions" against Russian oil imports, as per the statement by Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission's executive vice president. [1] The EU, on the 25th of A...
The European Union quickly decided to send €500 million from the European Peace Facility (EPF) to fund and coordinate European Union's military aid and to deploy military and deadly weaponry to Ukraine in extraordinary and united response t...
