The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the United Nations Framework Conven­tion on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was marked by multiple crises and the shaken confidence of developing countries in the multilateral process. Nonetheless, an agreement was reached on the...

Die 27. Vertragsstaatenkonferenz (COP 27) der UN-Klimarahmenkonvention im ägyptischen Scharm El-Scheich stand im Zeichen multipler Krisen und angeschlagenen Vertrauens der Entwicklungsländer in den multilateralen Prozess. Trotz allem ist es aber gelungen, beim kritischen Thema Schäden und...

Die Stabilität Nordkoreas zu wahren bildet eine ernste Herausforderung für die globale Sicherheit, besonders für die Sicherheit im indopazifischen Raum. Nicht nur strukturelle wirtschaftliche Probleme und das Risiko eines militärischen Konflikts gefährden diese Stabilität, sondern...

The euphoria felt by both domestic and foreign liberal audiences following the victory of a pro-reform party in Moldova is now receding. The new Moldovan leadership has stumbled in fulfilling its main electoral promise, namely to fight corruption by effectively reforming the justice system....

The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is forcing Europeans into a confrontational security order. This also makes European strategic sovereignty - n defence policy, but also in economics, technology, energy policy, and institutional framework - a more significant goal for the European...

Moscow’s decision on 24 February 2022 to invade Ukraine constituted a culmination in the militarisation trajectory of Russian foreign policy since 2008. At the same time, the war has exposed the weaknesses of the military reform launched by Moscow in 2008. The high losses of the country’s...

Among the many significant geopolitical consequences of Russia’s war against Ukraine has been the reinvigoration of the Middle Corridor, both as a regional economic zone comprising Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Turkey but also as an increasingly attrac­tive alternative route between Europe...