As NATO expands eastward, Russia has expressed growing concerns over what it sees as a threat to its national security. At the same time Russia is transitioning to a market economy, with the aim of becoming a free trade partner with the West. The question of concern to European nations is; how...

According to conventional wisdom, strategic natural resources like oil are harmful to international peace. Nonetheless, there is little empirical quantitative work on the link between resource abundance and interstate conflicts. Analyzing the impact of oil on militarized interstate disputes on a...

Die Dauer militärischer Beschaffungen zeigt die wirtschaftliche Notwendigkeit, Bedarfsträger und Bedarfsdeckung institutionell zusammenzuführen, um die Ausrüstung der Bundeswehr schneller und wirtschaftlicher zu beschaffen. Es erscheint sinnvoll, die Rüstungsplanung und -beschaffung unter...

The purpose of this study is to provide a short overview of current developments in EU member states in relation to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs). Although UAVs have been deployed by several armed forces since the 1960s, they have experienced a...

COVID-19 hat eine globale Wirtschaftskrise ausgelöst. Diese belastet Staatshaushalte und erhöht den politischen Druck auf globale Verteidigungsausgaben. Transnationale Lieferketten, die auf umfangreichen Transportkapazitäten und reibungslosem Warenverkehr beruhen, zeigten in dieser Krise ihre...