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Expert briefing
Publication date: 1 March 2018

An armed conflict at Europe's eastern end is entering its fifth year, yet international conflict resolution efforts and sanctions against Russia have not produced appreciable…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 10 August 2015

Controversial moves to mark the South Ossetia border.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 13 July 2018

Iraq and Syria -- neighbours with many economic, political and social connections -- have both been subject to years of destructive armed conflict. They are now looking to…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 18 January 2016

Agreement between Iran and the P5+1 (France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, China and the United States) on the former's nuclear programme in July 2015 has been heralded as…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 24 June 2019

Russia has spent the last year choking commercial shipping's access to Ukraine's Mariupol and Berdyansk ports on the Sea of Azov. As Russia increases its naval power in the Black…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 8 November 2019

The status of efforts to resolve the Western Sahara conflict.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 27 November 2023

After an incident in late September that left one Kosovar police officer and three Serbian gunmen dead, the dispute over Kosovo’s sovereignty has become more dangerous, prompting…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 4 April 2022

Attacks by anti-junta People's Defence Forces (PDFs), which operate largely autonomously from each other, are taking an increasing toll on the army. Western powers are ramping up…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 11 September 2017

The Moldovan defence ministry sent 57 soldiers in defiance of a veto by President Igor Dodon, who favours Moscow and is in constant conflict with the pro-European government. The…

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