Global Conflicts

Europe’s energy security may look stable—but beneath the surface, it’s a system shaped more by geopolitics, markets, and luck than strategy. Read Andrzej Fałkowski's insights on the subject.

Andrzej Fałkowski explores how anti-corruption has evolved from a governance issue into a core pillar of national security. Using Ukraine as a case study, he argues that institutional transparency …

Andrzej Fałkowski explores why technological change is now a decisive factor in national security. He argues that governments must actively shape innovation ecosystems—linking industry, research …

Modern military strength depends not only on weapons and budgets, but on the minerals that make advanced systems possible. Andrzej Fałkowski argues that the real foundation of defence power lies …

When conflict looms, does international law fall silent or has it been shaping state behaviour all along? This essay explores how obligations, consent, custom, and evolving accountability mechanisms …

As part of RAUSI’s ongoing exploration of how national security strategies translate into real-world outcomes, Andrzej Fałkowski examines one of Europe’s most strategically compressed and …

In this analysis, Andrzej Fałkowski takes readers inside the often opaque machinery of defence decision-making within NATO and the European Union—two institutions that share many of the same …

How did energy security move from policy concern to security priority and why did the European Union and NATO frame it differently? This paper examines how both institutions securitized …

When do alliance defence obligations actually begin? LJ Howard's analysis explores why waiting for an “armed attack” may undermine deterrence — and why “threat or use of force” offers a …

In this structural analysis, Richard Martin examines how a newly unbound United States and an increasingly unmade Europe collide at the hinge-point of Ukraine—reshaping the future of transatlantic …

Ukraine’s fight for sovereignty is reshaping far more than regional borders. In this sweeping analysis, Richard Martin examines how Ukraine’s political, economic, and civilizational alignment with …

The Cool War: Strategic Signalling, the Information Battlespace, and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence

Ukraine is transitioning from a strategy of conventional defence to one of long-range, decentralized, and psychological disruption of Russian internal stability and deterrent posture. This article …

Panelists who toured sites of recent conflict earlier this year offer a grounded, multifaceted look at the situation in Israel through a uniquely Canadian military lens.

Indian ammunition reaches Ukraine through European channels, raising tensions with Russia as India navigates complex defense export politics. Is India caught in a geopolitical web, or is this …

Upcoming RMCSD presenter Sarah Chayes shares her innovative thinking on corruption and its implications in this paper written for the National Democratic Institute.

After the Black Sea Grain Initiative failed in July 2023, Ukraine and Romania established a safe lane. The UK offered old minehunters, but Türkiye blocked their passage using the Montreux Convention …

Reportedly, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Group, is now domiciled in Belarus at the invitation of President Lukashenko, while the main body of Wagner Group's soldiers are being given the …

All wars are fought for political objectives. What are those objectives in the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Have they changed over the past year? Has a new character of war yet been revealed in the …

In the just published Royal United Services Institute article entitled Mass, Mobilisation and Reserve Forces, Sir Julien Brazier argues for a substantial re-think in how the UK Reserve Forces are …