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March 25, 2021
Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has undergone profound economic and political changes. Initial hopes for a tranquil post-Cold War world, however, look naive in retrospect. Rapid NATO enlargement and European Union expansion, and perhaps NATO’s Balkan interventions, now appear to have been ...
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August 22, 2019
Over the past several years, rising cyber power has comprehensively and profoundly affected international security. Key areas include military operations, terrorism, critical infrastructure, corporate security, individual privacy and financial security, and political processes. The burgeoning ...
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July 19, 2018
Since at least 2001, the Middle East has been the focal point of American foreign policy and military strategy. The shock of 9/11 brought the US and its allies first into Afghanistan and then, via grim momentum and fraught logic, into Iraq. But the United States has of course been engaged in the ...
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June 11, 2018
The shock of the vote for Brexit – the UK’s 23 June 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union – is being felt in all areas of the UK policy community: in domestic and foreign affairs, in politics, economics and the law. But the IISS is an international institution and Brexit is not just a ...
