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July 2025 Albania and North Macedonia represent two strategically significant actors for the stabilization of the Western Balkans, whose position in European and security integrations is permanently conditioned by internal weaknesses and foreign pressures. Even though both countries formally exhibit a clear NATO orientation, their European integration path remains difficult, fragmented, and susceptible to political […]

July 2025 The Black Sea region and the Caucasus remain one of the key hubs of European and Eurasian security, a space in which the historical deposits and contemporary strategic ambitions intertwine with deep socio-political patterns that generate a complex regional resilience. As the West and Russia continue their long-term redistribution of resources within the

July 2025 The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 marked the end of an era in the contemporary history of Syria, but did not bring about stability. The vacuum at the state level that followed opened up a space for actions of new actors – local militias, regional 0owers, and tribal councils – who

July 2025 In the last decade, Iran has gradually constructed its position as the most consistent actor in the Middle East. While the United States of America gradually reduced its military presence, and Russia focused on the war in Ukraine and internal economic priorities, Tehran has methodically spread its influence through a combination of military,

June 2025 In the conditions of global conflicts, energy disruptions, and fragmentation of market flows, I see the defense industry of Southeastern Europe as a sector that is once again taking up the central position in national strategies, because it acts like a political DNA of the region that reacts to pressure from outside and

June 2025 Today, the Balkans are entering the focus of global flows in a way that is surprising to many, even though, for years, it was noticeable that the region is slowly making a comeback to the map of key corridors of world economy, given that such changes always emerge at the intersection of wars,

June 2025 Energy security of Southeastern Europe entered the focus as soon as the war in Ukraine changed the power balance and redefined the approach to Russia, and thus, I almost instantly see that the region which for decades lived on Russian gas is turning to diversification and is creating some form of a controlled

June 2025 Five years after the EU opened up negotiations with North Macedonia, I notice that the country is once again at the crossroads, wandering between a historical chance and a serious fatigue with reforms, and all this in a moment when the government is still pushing for the European course, even declaratively. They are

June 2025 Fifteen years after the region formally stepped out of the period of mass armed conflicts, the Balkans is once again entering into focus of the Euro-Atlantic security architecture. The war in Ukraine, energy insecurity, cyber threats, and the growing influence of third actors, such as Russia, China, and Turkey, are raising the level

June 2025 In just a few years, generative artificial intelligence surpassed laboratory experiments and became the central point of global security. Up to mid-2025, it has become a part of the state’s infrastructural power. It no longer functions only as a technological resource. It has become a mechanism of political influence and a new form