Eurasia Press & News

The migration crisis on the eastern border of the European Union (EU), which began earlier this summer and has ramped up dramatically in recent months, came as a surprise not only to the border countries, such as Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland, but also to top EU leaders. After the European …

Under the Biden administration, calls for a NATO Black Sea strategy have amplified. A gamechanger for the much-needed regional strategy is Georgia’s and Ukraine’s path to membership. NATO’s strategic reassessment, to be finalized next year at the Madrid summit in June, will likely fall short of granting Ukraine and Georgia …

After almost two years of work, the first draft of the European Union’s (EU) so-called Strategic Compass was presented on Nov. 15. The objective of this military strategic plan is to agree on a set of proposals to guide the bloc’s defense cooperation efforts for the next five to ten …

In recent months, a series of analytical publications sparked fresh debate in Iran about the status of Iran’s oil and natural gas reserves in the Caspian Sea as well as why it has still not taken greater efforts to exploit those resources. Namely, a piece in August predicted that a …

Despite difficult relations between the UK and Russia in recent years, their respective approaches to the Middle East show areas of common ground which can be built upon through dialogue. UK–Russia relations have been, at best, complicated over the past decade. This has also been apparent in the Middle East …

Although China’s recent hypersonic missile test is evidence of significant Chinese technological advancement, it does not represent a paradigmatic shift in nuclear deterrence. In October, the Financial Times reported that China’s hypersonic missile test over the summer represented a technological breakthrough for nuclear weapons. The operational proof-of-concept missile flew at …

Tym razem białoruski reżim sztucznie wygenerował powód, dla którego Europa coś od niego może chcieć. Kryzys humanitarny to jedno. Ryzykant czy pragmatyk? Autonomiczny przywódca czy ledwie namiestnik prowincji Rosyjski Bliski Zachód? Co go motywuje? Jakie ma pole manewru? Którego kija się boi, jakich marchewek chce? Kto zdoła odpowiedzieć na te …

Location: Virtually via ZoomGovSubcommittee: Europe, Energy, the Environment and CyberWitnesses:Andrea Kendall-TaylorSenior Fellow and DirectorTransatlantic Security ProgramCenter for a New American Security

European Union Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas, responsible for coordinating migration and security policies, has held two-day long talks in Ankara, his fourth stop in a tour of partner countries key to putting a stop to the “instrumentalization of migrants by the Belarussian regime and [which] aims to further reinforce …

Nearly 15,000 Yemeni Houthi fighters have been killed near the strategic city of Marib since June, sources close to the rebels said Thursday, in a rare admission of their casualties during the seven-year war. “The air strikes launched by the Saudi-led military coalition and the battles have killed nearly 14,700 …