sanctions against Russia; and incremental nuclear coercion against Kyiv that spurred Western deterrence messaging in response …A close reading of Russia’s nuclear statements and actions during the first seven months of its war against Ukraine … severely imperil the survival of Russia’s regime. …

unfeasible, sanctions have become the central instrument of the international community in dealing with the threat from North … Korea. While inherently linked to and built upon the respective resolutions of the UN Security Council, the EU’s sanctions … sanctions regime of the EU currently in operation. Since its inception in 2006, the EU's sanctions regime against the DPRK …

Russia's war against Ukraine and the geopolitical shifts on the Eurasian continent have brought Central Asia back into …

Russia wants to realise a high degree of self-regulated stability in the Arctic. Moscow considers this necessary for … well as neighbouring countries and NATO consider these efforts a threat. Russia takes a defensive attitude in the Arctic …, but it is prepared for rapid escalation in the event of confrontation. Russia's Arctic policy is a part of its strategy …

unmistakable competition over integration between the EU and Russia. The eastern Mediterranean region, the Black Sea and Caspian … EU, China, Russia and - across the Black Sea - Iran and Turkey are competing in these zones to influence the …

for a cultural, military, political and commercial alliance with Turkey’s eastern neighbors, notably Russia, Iran, the …