Category: Conflict & Security
169 Articles
- Conflict & Security
The Fall of Bashar al-Assad: Winners, Losers, and Challenges Ahead
Introduction The Syrian Civil War began in 2011 amid the Arab Spring with peaceful demonstrations against the authoritarian regime of Bashar al-Assad. The government responded…
May 7, 2025
- Conflict & Security
Transnistria’s Art of Survival: Navigating the 2025 Gas Crisis
Introduction An unrecognized breakaway region of Moldova, home to a predominantly Russian-speaking population, Transnistria has maintained its de facto statehood since the…
April 23, 2025
- Conflict & Security
The Druze Community in Israel: A Model of Minority Integration
Introduction The Druze community, an ethnoreligious minority, holds a unique position in Israel and the broader Middle East. Despite numbering only around one million people…
April 21, 2025
- Conflict & Security
North Korean Forces in Ukraine: What it Means and What to Do
Introduction In October 2024, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) sent approximately 12,000 of its soldiers to Russia to participate in Russia’s war against…
April 10, 2025
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Strengthening European Defense in an Era of US Retrenchment: Insights from the Draghi Report
Introduction On September 9, 2024, former Italian Prime Minister and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi presented The Future of European Competitiveness, a report…
April 9, 2025
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Why Hezbollah Fell
Introduction On March 3, 2025, Nawaf Moussawi, one of the few remaining senior figures of Hezbollah, sat for an interview with al-Mayadeen TV to discuss the militant group’s…
March 31, 2025
- Conflict & Security
Civilian Protection as Strategy: A New Approach to Counterterrorism in West Africa
Introduction The last ten years of counterterrorism in West Africa are difficult to characterize as anything other than a failure. Notwithstanding interventions from France and…
March 26, 2025
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The Balochistan Quagmire: A Cycle of Violence, Political Mobilization, and Repression
Introduction Balochistan has long been at the center of tensions between the federal government and Baloch nationalist movements, stemming from political marginalization,…
March 14, 2025
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The Colonial Strategy and India-China Conflict: Past, Present, and Future
British Colonial Strategy and Its Long-Term Impact In the early to mid-19th century—especially following the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)—the British colonial…
January 18, 2025
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How the New Geopolitics of Energy Informs the Current Oil Price-Risk Relationship in the Middle East
Introduction There is now some consensus among oil market participants that the long-held assumption of a correlation of oil price to Middle East regional risk is broken. Since…
December 10, 2024