Sweden’s Path to NATO Still has Pitfalls
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION – When the Turkish Parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee approved Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s proposal to approve Sweden’s bid to join […] More
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NATO’s Four Big Challenges: A Subscriber+Exclusive Interview
Exclusive Subscriber+Interview — This week’s NATO Summit in Vilnius may have fallen short of the clear path to membership that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has […] More
Erdogan’s ‘Poker Game’ Uses Sweden As Chip: A Subscriber+Exclusive Interview
Exclusive Subscriber+Member Interview — In a flurry of negotiations on the eve of the NATO summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed himself as the […] More
NATO’s Road to Vilnius Has Been a Tough One: Here’s What to Know as Members Meet
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — Members of the world’s largest and most powerful security alliance descended on Vilnius, Lithuania over the weekend in what is considered […] More
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‘Who’s The Fairest Vlad of All’: Expert Perspective on the Russian President’s Next Move
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — “Mirror, mirror on the wall—who’s the fairest one of all?” is the famous misquote from the movie Snow White. Speaking at a […] More
Inoculation Efforts Against the Onslaught of Disinformation
Bottom Line Up Front Given Russia’s relentless disinformation campaigns, several European countries have accelerated efforts to prepare their populations for this threat. While successful […] More
The Dilemma of Repatriation
Many European nations are avoiding the responsibility of taking back their citizens who traveled to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State; this […] More
How Russia Likely Sees Nordic Defense
Sweden and Finland are moving closer to the western sphere of defense, while Norway has long held strong defense relations with the U.S. and NATO, […] More
Sweden, Finland & Norway Deepen Defense Ties with the West
Sweden, Finland, and Norway (the only NATO member of the three) are inching closer to the western sphere of defense. Russian incursions over the past […] More
Nordic Nations Need NATO
The Nordic countries – in particular Sweden, Finland, and Norway – are bolstering defense relations with the United States at a time when Russia had […] More