This Paper addresses the question of Western European responses to the initial stages of the breakdown of the Yugoslav Federation. Its analytical framework offers a structural realist perspective for assessing the difficulties inherent in applying the precepts of preventive diplomacy

This text offers a theoretically informed analysis of Cold War-era Canadian debates relating to the country's participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its security relationship with the United States. The analysis highlights a balance-of-threat focus in addressing more...

Although in its core meaning a straightforward and even elementary notion, deterrence as an informing principle of strategy in the nuclear age assumes a subtlety and sophistication that has intrigued some of the best military and scientific minds since the Second World War. This analysis...

The Communication on the Arctic Region, issued 20 November 2008 by the EU Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, proposes a more ambitiously conceived as well as a more effectively coordinated approach to Arctic policy issues by the EU. The Commission’s policy brief thus sets...

This analysis conceptualizes conflict processes as the simultaneous pursuit of incompatible objectives by the protagonists. From this starting point, its primary focus is the impact of actor goals on conflict escalation and conflict reduction. This case study addresses the period from 5 August...