Maritime Security in East Asia: Summer of Our Discontent?
Demarcation disputes in the East China Sea have increased tensions made questions of maritime security in East Asia topical.
Lebanon at a brink
With the Syrian war, Lebanon has received 1,5 million refugees and become a buffer state against IS’ Jihadism. What explains the country’s resilience against a violent spill-over from Syria?
North Korea’s nuclear weapons: Iranian solution – a way out?
North-Korea is getting closer and closer to a de facto nuclear deterrence capability.
Good neighbours – the end of the affair?
The EU’s relationship with several neighbouring countries has shifted from harmony to tension. But might the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) have served to make security political bonds stronger? A new book edited by NUPI senior researcher Pernille Rieker looks into this question.
Military non-alignment, political solidarity, and a retreat to territorial defence: how to understand the Swedish NATO-debate
Advancing Reconciliation Diplomacy: Sri Lankan Perspective
How does Sri Lanka work to advance reconciliation after the civil war that ended in 2009?
Expectations for the Warsaw Summit: Conventional and nuclear responses to Russian belligerence
This paper describes two aspects of the changed security environment. First, it discusses NATO’s response to the new threats on its eastern and southern borders. The Alliance took a number of modest steps at the Wales Summit in september 2014 to deal with those, but were they enough? Will it announce a more robust response at the Warsaw Summit this summer? Second, what is the role for NATO nuclear policy in strategic deterrence? Why is this topic back in discussion after years of benign neglect within the Alliance? Given its sensitivity, this subject is unlikely to be discussed at the next summit—but perhaps it should be. This paper addresses some of the key elements of deterrence strategy in an alliance that has not had to think about the subject for more than two decades.