Category: Security Policy & Defence
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The Role of AI in Supporting Women, Peace and Security Agenda
This article investigates how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can support the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda (WPS). Through the introduction of the following technologies: automated behavioural analysis, AI consultation, predictive analytics, AI-generated event maps and machine-learning disaster robots applied to the five principles of the WPS agenda: prevention, participation, protection, relief, and recovery. The article…
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The Time has Come to “Europeanise” NATO
The relationship between the United States (US) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is often fantasised about by Europeans, who are quick to confound US defence with NATO. However, we should consider NATO in the same way as the Americans – a European regional organisation in which the United States participate.
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The European Army
The European Army regularly appears in European defence discourse as a solution that would solve the troubles that the EU has had in it´s defence sector. This article aims to discuss the challenges that a European army would create and aims to answer the question if the idea of a European Army would be able…
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What will Biological Warfare look like in the 21st Century
From the perspective of a natural scientist, how will today’s technology change biological warfare in the 21st century? Over the last two decades, breakthroughs in synthetic biology, biological engineering and biological AI have radically changed what is possible in terms of biological weapons research. But despite potentially gaining new capabilities, the deployment of biological weapons…
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EPIS Basics: the US Grand Strategy Spectrum
America has the luxury of choosing along a spectrum of four broad grand strategy choices: isolationism, offshore balancing, selective engagement, and hegemony.
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Shifting Priorities
Civil-military cooperation involves military forces working with civilian entities and populations to achieve shared goals in conflict, disaster, or peacetime. However, the concept is debated among scholars, with varying definitions, depending on who defines it. Nevertheless, civil-military cooperation remains essential for addressing modern conflicts and hybrid threats. For NATO, the Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence…
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Implications of the EU’s Nearshoring Activities in Morocco
Amidst the global power shifts and disruptions of supply chains, the European Union will need a new strategy to secure its position in the world and enhance the resilience of the domestic market. This paper explores how a new initiative of nearshoring EU’s global production lines closer to its borders can achieve such a goal.…
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How the “Sondervermögen” of the German Armed Forces is threatning democary in Germany
To fund the €100bln Berlin plans to spend for its armed forces, it plans to introduce a debt brake. This, however, could threaten democracy.
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5 Reasons Why Mark Rutte is Not the Right One to Lead NATO
NATO cannot afford to be run by a political leader who is not sufficiently experienced in shaping international security policy.
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The Significance of the Japan-US Alliance amid the Evolving World Order
The USA-Japan alliance aims to balance China’s power and address the Russia-Ukraine war, ensuring peace and security in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.