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Expert briefing
Publication date: 4 July 2019

Over the past several weeks, Tehran has gradually shifted from a position of ‘strategic patience’ to escalatory action in an attempt to pressure Washington to back off and elicit…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 21 March 2016

NATO's evolving response to growing Russian military power.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 23 February 2017

Following initial silence, the administration of US President Donald Trump has signalled a hostile position towards President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Trump met Lilian…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 12 January 2024

Vietnam is Russia’s closest partner in South-east Asia and has refused to criticise Moscow over the Ukraine war. Between 2000 and 2022, Russia accounted for more than 80% of…

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: 2 January 2019

EU responses to Russian actions around Ukraine.

Expert briefing
Publication date: 25 February 2022

The sanctions amount to a middle-of-the-road approach: leaders agreed to keep Russia in the SWIFT payment system and avoid targeting Russian energy exports. They will not cause…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 3 November 2022

Polls show strong sympathy for Moscow in Bulgaria and in Hungary as well. Pro-Russian attitudes result in weak public buy-in for Western sanctions in all three countries and…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 April 2023

Sources close to the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) said a photograph purporting to show one in the skies above Tehran had been faked. Iran has supplied unmanned aerial…

Expert briefing
Publication date: 20 April 2022

For Estonians, the war in Ukraine has awakened traumatic memories of Soviet invasion during the Second World War and generates great sympathy for Ukraine and anger at Russia, as…

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