More than 25 years after the Dayton Accords which ended the largest genocide in Europe since World War II, modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is still dominated by ethnocentric rhetoric and divisions along ethnic lines. The country is run by an inefficient government, captured by nationalist parties only looking for the betterment of a specific…

The Covid-19 pandemic has prompted many governments to foster domestic tourism and avoid long-distance holidays. In such circumstances, a number of citizens have (re-)discovered their homeland, with Muscovites having realized that Mount Elbrus in the Caucasus can be just as breathtaking as Mont Blanc and Vladivostok as exotic as Vancouver in Canada…

A well-known Russian policy shaper and Dean of one of Moscow's most prominent universities once described U.S.-Russia relations to me as "two people walking side by side with a gun to the head and a pistol to the hip."Indeed, in mainstream U.S. news cycles, the word "Russia" has come to be associated with sensationalist accusations…

31 March 2021The Deep Cuts Commission believes the United Kingdom’s new nuclear policies to increase the limit of its overall nuclear stockpile to 260 warheads and to make its nuclear posture more opaque complicate efforts to advance multilateral nuclear arms control and nonproliferation efforts. To reduce and reverse the negative implications of the…

Historical navalism, “navigare necesse est”
One of the America’s greatest military strategists, Alfred Thayer Mahan, in his book “The Influence of Sea Power upon History” about a hundred years ago, saw the value of world oceans and activity there as the foundation for national greatness and power. The pivot of this greatness was a powerful…

The last couple of years I have experienced Russian soft power firsthand through various NGO-programs. Here is what I learned – and how I was influenced.By Celine Emma la Cour, a student of Political Science at University of Copenhagen and member of the Meeting Russia Alumni Club since 2019.Original publication on picreadi.comThere are two kinds of…

The world is facing new global security threats. Great power and regional tensions are on the rise. The post-World War II security architecture is disintegrating. Six institutions from the U.S., Russia, and Europe join forces and ask the next generation of arms control negotiators to meet the security challenges of our time. What is ACONA? The Arms…

The Deep Cuts Project is happy to announce the launch of the new Young Deep Cuts Commission.This project aims to provide young arms control experts an independent, nongovernmental platform to develop and promote new ideas for the revitalization of nuclear arms control and deepen their expertise. We are looking for twelve master's students, doctoral…

The notion of separatism is not new: ethnic minorities have been struggling to gain independence in various regions around the world for ages. As the majority of the modern states is not ethnically homogeneous, many have a potential of an arising struggle of independence of the minorities, especially taking into consideration the rise of nationalism…

Dr. Salam Al Rabadi. Water gap has become one of the most important dialectics that arise in international relations, to the point of believing that the coming wars will be primarily wars and competition over water resources. Consequently, water scarcity poses a serious threat to human security, as there are currently more than 80 countries in which…

Old enemy-pictures still wander the surface of our relations. But young people from Western countries no longer see Russia as the greatest threat to the West and young Russians do not consider NATO as the main threat to their generation. It might be time to renew and deepen relations.By Natalia Burlinova, PICREADI's presidentOriginal publication on…

Disclaimer: The content of this article has been gathered using open-source intelligence (OSINT), no human intelligence (HUMINT) has been involved in the process. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the author at michael.lambert@insead.edu.ReutersThe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) is often described as a…