The Black Sea’s strategic importance is increasingly evident in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Russia’s ...

The EU is falling behind the US and China in the digital realm. It urgently needs a new agenda combining innovation, security ...

While Russia remains a potent player in parts of Africa, recent events in the Sahelian states have shown that Russian forces ...

The CJEU has blocked the EU’s inclusion of Western Sahara in its trade and fishery agreements with Morocco. The bloc should ...

This local branch of the Islamic State group (ISIS) was at first self-proclaimed, the outgrowth of a schism within MUJAO. The group’s leader, the former MUJAO commander Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, ...

The EU vote in favour of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles has exposed divisions across EU member states on how to ...

Europe’s rapidly changing geopolitical position is causing Switzerland to rethink elements of its neutrality. This dramatic ...

Mutual aid and civilian representative groups have proven their capability and deserve deeper European backing ...

Three powers – China, India, and Pakistan – hold the keys to the future of south Asia. As the West withdraws from Afghanistan and US influence in the region declines, this triangular strategic ...

Iyad Ag Ghali, the central leader of the 1990 rebellion in Mali, formed Ansar al-Din in late 2011. The group quickly emerged around a core of Ifoghas Tuareg and longtime companions of Ag Ghali, ...

Turmoil in the Middle East and north Africa directly affects Europeans. Yet their influence in the region has never been weaker. The region has been in flux since the wave of Arab uprisings began in ...

MUJAO split from AQIM in October 2011, following accusations that AQIM was too dominated by Arab commanders and criticisms of its methods of jihad. From the beginning, MUJAO had a clearly Sahelian ...