In this DIIS Report, Trine Flockhart (editor) brings together security researchers and practitioners with in-depth expertise on NATO and NATO's partnerships. The aim is to focus on NATO's new partnership policy and on the role and meaning of the new concept, 'cooperative security'. Overall the...

Economic sanctions are a frequent instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic conflict, they aim to elicit a change in the policies of foreign governments by damaging their economy. However, sanctions are not costless for the sending economy, where domestic firms involved in business with the...

Die Integration von zentral- und osteuropäischen Ländern in westliche Strukturen ist mit vielfachen Fragen verknüpft, deren Untersuchung für die Länder selbst wie auch für westliche Länder, aber auch unter dem Gesichtspunkt der weiteren Entwicklung und Erweiterung der wichtigsten...

There is a widespread perception these years that strongmen around the world are winning, posing new geopolitical challenges and threats to the Western liberal order and security architecture. This DIIS Report takes a closer look at one of these strongmen, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The...