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On the verge of oblivion: A wave of repression and political violence in Baluchistan

March 2025 While the attention of the world is still captured by the conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza, and even Sudan, in the shadows of these big conflicts, in the shadows of geopolitical events, one of the longest-lasting but also most forgotten conflicts in Asia continues to simmer in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. Taking up […]

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Hybrid threats: Security of elections in the region

March 2025 The electoral year of 2025 in Europe opens up the issue that has already transformed into the regional stress-test: how secure are the elections in the digital age? In the conditions of fragmented societies, algorithmically-led elections, and global competition for influence, the electoral process is becoming a point of intersection of classical politics

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Negotiations under fire: Partial ceasefire in Ukraine

March 2025 March of 2025 brought along one of the most significant moments in the course of the ongoing war in Ukraine – a temporary ceasefire, agreed upon with the help of American diplomacy and with the support of Saudi Arabia, which hosted the Jeddah negotiations. Ukraine agreed on implementing the 30-day ceasefire, which is

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From gold to ashes: The dynamics of conflict and resources in Sudan

March 2025 Two years after the outbreak of conflict between the members of the official Sudan Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary formation initially formed during the rule of the former President Omar al-Bashir, Khartoum transformed from a classical conflict zone into a symbol of continuity of African wars fed by the

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Behind the Frontline: Lessons from the Russo-Ukrainian War

March 2025 Behind the frontline, before the first strike can be heard, the fight that surpasses classical understanding of war is taking place – the fight for narratives, perception, and sense. The conflict in Ukraine is not a mere result of the sudden fall of the security architecture of Europe, but a consequence of a

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Libya and Sahel: The Impact of African Instability on the Balkans

February 2025 With the worsening of the political and security situation in Libya and in the Sahel region in 2024, it was once again confirmed that the escalation of violence and deepening of the instability in Africa cannot be perceived as an isolated regional phenomenon. Especially the worsening of the political and security situation in

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Artificial Intelligence and Propaganda: the Balkans as a test-polygon

February 2025 The Balkans have historically been a crossroads of power, but in the digital world, it has grown into a new type of competition – the one in which conflicts are not waged with weapons, but with data, algorithms, and narratives. Artificial intelligence, initially developed as a tool of technological progress, today functions as

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Migrations: Security and political instrumentalization

February 2025 A decade after the great migration crisis of 2015, Europe is once again faced with waves of instability, which make migrations not only a humanitarian, but also a security and especially a political issue of first order. Even though essentially just a consequence of conflicts, climate changes and economic inequality, it is indicative

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The Green Agenda in the region: Energy challenges and resistance

February 2025 Five years after the Western Balkans countries adopted the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans, it is evident that the energy transition process is taking place in the conditions of deep structural imbalance. Even though the European institutions and international financial actors have defined this framework as a path to modernization and alignment

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The heart of Africa on fire: The DR Congo conflict and its regional consequences

February 2025 The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) is once again at the epicenter of the African and international security agenda. After more than two decades of chronic instability in the North Kiwu and Ituri provinces, in the previous few months, we have witnessed a new escalation of conflicts between the DR Congo Armed

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