Foreign and security policyStigmatise nuclear weapons! The Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was a signal at the right time. Nuclear threats are unacceptable By Anne Balzer
Foreign and security policyChina to the rescue? Who could soften the dire effects of the war in Ukraine on the Global South? China could — by selling its US assets and launching a special fund By Branko Milanović
Foreign and security policyHow Russia is trying to compete with NATO Through the CSTO, Russia is trying to become a regional peacekeeper, but it is unlikely that the organisation can be an alternative to NATO By Rosa Turarbekova
Foreign and security policyA strong northern deterrence: Sweden and Finland want to join NATO With its war of aggression Russia has united NATO, persuading Sweden and Finland to revert a decades long policy of neutrality By Kate Hansen Bundt
Foreign and security policyHow the West can win back the Central African Republic To shake Russia’s position in the Central African Republic, Europe needs to stop reducing the country to a geopolitical sideshow By Tim Glawion
Foreign and security policyMoldova’s neutrality dilemma As a neighbour of Ukraine and with its own breakaway region, Moldova finds itself in a changed security context where it must rethink its neutrality By Denis Cenuşa
Foreign and security policyA new arms race on the Korean peninsula? South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-Yeol, revives the failed North Korea policy of his conservative predecessors — and risks a new arms race By Benedikt Staar
Foreign and security policyIs it time for Austria to re-evaluate its neutrality? In the new security context, which prompted Sweden and Finland to apply for NATO membership, Austria's policy of neutrality seems outdated By Robert Misik
Foreign and security policySo Germany’s to blame for Putin. Really? Germany has been blamed for its cooperative approach towards Russia. But critics fail to understand its reasoning By George Pagoulatos
Foreign and security policyHas the war in Ukraine made the EU a geopolitical actor? The war in Ukraine has forced the EU to take a geopolitical role. To live up to expectations, the bloc must secure a norm-based international system By Nicoletta Pirozzi