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…

Dr. Salam Al RabadiAccording to the dialectic of society and power, there are systemic difficulties that will face anyone who wants to address the governmental policy dilemmas related to the crisis of the "Covid_19" pandemic in the Arab world, which can be expressed by asking about the problematic of separation criteria between public…

With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the gains made on the level of equality are vulnerable to reversal. Where this pandemic deepens existing imbalances and reveals weaknesses in the social, political and economic systems, which exacerbate the suffering of women and girls simply because they are female. Despite the slow evolution in the…

Located in the Earth’s northernmost region, the Arctic is characterized by its frigid temperatures, expansive sea ice sheets, and barren tundra settings. The Arctic remains largely uninhabitable, apart from a collection of indigenous individuals sparsely scattered throughout the region. U.S. policy defines the Arctic as a geographic area…

China-Azerbaijan relations after the Second Karabakh War remain in passive mode. More widely, reactionary foreign policy has exposed China’s Belt and Road narrative as both politically and economically thin. As access narratives across crucial chokepoints for China’s Belt and Road intensified in 2020, China’s foreign policy in the South Caucasus…

This article appeared in several European newspapers in their respective languages on the day of the entry into force of the Treaty: In the Netherlands in De Volkskrant, in Belgium in Le Soir (French) and De Morgen (Dutch) as well as in Germany on Spiegel Online.On January 22, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force. The new…