by Žiga Turk* | Apr 14, 2019 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare
Disinformation is used as a political weapon. It’s not a new phenomenon, it used to exist and it will be in the future. It is just one of the tools from the toolbox of a wider effort that is called influence operations which is probably part of the hybrid warfare....
by Hall Gardner* | Apr 13, 2019 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare
Concept of Political Warfare stems from Clausewitz: Condensed Version: « War is a continuation of politics by other means… war is therefore an act of violence to force the opponent to fulfil our will. A deeper reading of Clausewitz implies that war represents...
by Alexy Zender* | Apr 12, 2019 | Commentary, Energy Security, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Drilling operations in East Mediterranean; specifically issues such as how to transport the extracted gas and on which route has changed security environment of the region and its geopolitics. New actors and mechanisms are involved in the game. Well then, what caused...
by Raffaele Marchetti* | Apr 9, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
Two main dynamics are at work in the international level. The first is the state-centred “great power dynamics”. And the second is pluralist “global governance” in which a plethora of different actors exist alongside states. A main feature of the latter, non-state...
by Tom Sauer* | Apr 8, 2019 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
As any observer can notice, all great and regional powers are building up their weapons arsenals. Some are proud of it and like to show it both to the outside world and to their own people like Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, and also Trump; others do it...
by Olena Snigyr* | Apr 6, 2019 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management, Political & Hybrid Warfare
The distance – physical and psychological distance of many European capitals from Crimea dwarfs the sense of danger many Europeans tend to feel about the annexation of Crimea. Despite the fact that Crimea is a part of natural-Mediterranean – Black Sea security area...
