Any conflict with a nuclear power like Russia carries the risk that nuclear weapons could be used, and President … Vladimir Putin is aggressively exploiting such concerns. With its nuclear threats, the Kremlin is moving away from Russia … consequences. If Russia succeeds in using nuclear deterrence to shield an offensive conventional war, this could further …

actors such as Russia, China and Turkey. Within the WB6, the two "outliers" of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Republika … Srpska use their for­eign and security relations with Russia to achieve their own political goals. While Serbia seeks support …

Turkey’s policy in the Black Sea region is the result of not only a complex relationship with Russia but also of a …

for a new round of compulsory mobilisation. However, Russia is not only recruiting for the war against Ukraine; the plan …

Russia’s war against Ukraine seems to have no immediate end in sight, the strategic competition between China and the … US continues, and the expanding military cooperation between China and Russia increases the challenges facing the … Gorbachev described in 1987. Indeed, this Arctic exceptionalism ended long before Russia’s war of aggression began. In order to …

NATO’s 2023 summit in Vilnius was dominated by Russia’s war against Ukraine. The summit in Washington, D.C., in July …