By: Sofia Sutera International Joint Ph.D Programme "Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance"- University of Padova, Human Rights Centre "Antonio Papisca" In order to...
By Roxana Allen Although envisioned by many philosophers in the 18th and 19th century, only after the carnage of World War I did diplomats begin...
By Karin Johnston, WIIS Blog Editor The topic is “Is the Future Democratic? Democracy, Security, Technology,” the gala conference in Berlin a celebration of fifteen years...
By: Weronika Grzebalska, Next Generation Symposium Fellow (2017) Russia recently held one of the largest “war games” since the Cold War, on its Western borders....
[caption id="attachment_8207" align="alignleft" width="393"] German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen Photo Credit: By Dirk Vorderstraße - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34048622[/caption] By Claudia...
By: Constance Baroudos As security threats increase in Europe, NATO must show it stands behind each of its members. President Barack Obama quadrupled funding for the European...
[caption id="attachment_5459" align="alignnone" width="300"] © REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov[/caption] By Elizabeth Pond "An exclusive report on the inner workings of Russian intelligence in Ukraine, from the Berlin...
Photo credit: Nicolas Raymond / freestock.ca¹ By Elizabeth Pond Elizabeth Pond argues that Putin's undeclared war on once-fraternal Ukraine has destroyed Moscow's influence on...
Written by Elizabeth Pond No, the West has not (yet) lost Ukraine in Vladimir Putin's Russian roulette, and the fragile Minsk truce and Western sanctions...
By Elizabeth Pond In a two part series, “What Next for Ukraine?” and “A Farewell to Arms?,” Elizabeth Pond evaluates two opposing trends of analysis...