June 2025 Six months after the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime, Syria is in the most delicate phase of its contemporary history. The overthrown authoritarian system is not replaced by a functional state order, but with a series of regional authorities, paramilitary structures, and temporary councils that control different parts of the territory. The […]
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May 2025 The signing of the defense accord between Albania, Croatia, and the so-called “Kosovo” in April 2025 represents a development that is changing the fundamental security architecture of the region. The accord was formally presented as a mechanism for strengthening stability, but the political DNA of this initiative identifies ambitions that surpass the declarative
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May 2025 By mid-2025, it will have become clear that the Pacific is transforming into the central point of the international system. The countries of the region are no longer only participating in the standard geopolitical competition; they are defining patterns that influence the global order. In other words, the issues that once belonged to
May 2025 Three decades after the wars and political crises of the nineties, the Balkans are entering a new phase of competition. Instead of trenches and peace accords, the fight for control of information dominated. The region is circulated by narratives that fit the global media flows, social networks, and the dependence of political elites
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May 2025 The South Asian subcontinent has, in the last decade, entered a phase in which the security architecture is changing faster than the institutions can follow. Between India and Pakistan, a new axis of conflict develops. There are no open fronts. There is a silent escalation. It is a space in which “the encryption
May 2025 Two years after the Vilnius Summit, NATO is entering into the phase of deep strategic transition. The Alliance is seeking a new balance between traditional collective defense and adjustment to the challenges of the multipolar system. The war in Ukraine, the growth of Chinese influence in the Indo-Pacific, and the return of the
May 2025 In mid-2025, the signing of the broadened security accords between Australia and Papua New Guinea marks a new phase in regional relations and indicates the existence of a growing “virus of instability” in the Indo-Pacific. Port Moresby states that this is a partnership of development and stability, while Canberra stresses the strategic response
May 2025 Five years after the coup (that took place in 2020), Mali is once again caught up in the whirlwind of political tensions. A wave of protests spreading throughout the Capital Bamako, and other major cities in 2025, represents a new phase in a long process of social and political erosion, which started long
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May 2025 At the beginning of 2025, the Persian Gulf has once again become the epicenter of global security tension. The conflict escalation between Iran and Israel, after a series of covert operations, cyber-attacks, and incidents in the Strait of Hormuz in the last year, has led to a sudden deterioration of regional stability. While
April 2025 The Persian Gulf remains the node of energy and political tensions, but in recent years, the geopolitical pressure has been more clearly being transported into the digital space. Countries of the region are nowadays protecting their systems as they are protecting energy networks under voltage, since each mistake reveals a crack in the
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