Europe

CIPHER SNAPSHOT: President Barack Obama recently visited the Arctic region to bring attention to the effects climate change is already having in Alaska. The president […] More

President Obama’s visit earlier this month to Alaska focused attention on the Arctic region’s growing geopolitical and geo-economic importance, not to mention its ecological significance […] More

As the ice continues to melt at the top of the world, climate change is altering more than global weather patterns. The opening up of […] More

The Cipher Brief spoke with Dr. James Henderson of the Oxford Institute to get his thoughts on the energy potential of the Arctic.  The Cipher […] More

Today in Europe there are more people made homeless by wars and conflict than ever before in recent history. The Secretary General of the United […] More

Last week the image of a tiny toddler’s body washed up on a Turkish beach became symbolic of a growing crisis in the Mediterranean. Tens […] More

Other than its open-air outlet mall, busy with shoppers from neighboring Slovakia and Hungary, there’s little memorable about the Austrian village of Parndorf. On Friday, […] More

The Cipher Brief sat down with Robert Richer, former CIA Associate Deputy Director for Operations, to talk about the Middle East refugee crisis that threatens […] More

In March 2014, when the Obama administration first invoked economic sanctions against Russia, no one knew how long they would last. The White House was […] More

The Cipher Brief sat down with former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin at the Aspen Security Forum in July to discuss the Russian security threat. […] More

The Cipher Brief spoke with Robert Dannenberg, former Managing Director and Head of the Office of Global Security for Goldman Sachs, about the business climate […] More

Ten years ago, four homegrown militants, some of who trained in Pakistan, launched devastating terror attacks in London. Today, the Islamic State of Iraq and […] More