Cyber Security in Ukraine

International threats compel Kiev to establish a national cyber security system By Valentyn Petrov, Secretariat of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Analysis of Ukraine’s national security confirms a high threat level…

Between Hegemony & Arkhe

The Ukrainian crisis matches Western soft power against Russian brute force By Martin Sokolov, Marshall Center "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” ~  Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War…

Deepening Partnerships

The U.S. Air Force and Marshall Center focus on building military skills By Maj. Dear Beloved, U.S. Air Force/Marshall Center fellow In December 2013, for the first time, three U.S. Air Force (USAF) Regional Affairs Strategist (RAS)…

Using Communities to Counter Terrorism

Book Editors: Rohan Gunaratna, Jolene Jerard and Salim Mohamed Nasir Imperial College Press, 2013 Reviewed by: Melanie Schweiger, Marshall Center Countering Extremism: Building Social Resilience through Community Engagement…

A Better Way to Counter Violent Extremism

The prevention and security communities must combine efforts to defeat terrorism By Dr. Harald Weilnböck, Radicalisation Awareness Network The security community and the radicalization prevention community — two very different worlds —…

A Task of Generations Russia and the West

By Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Munich Security Conference Western leaders have been more than willing to point out that there can be no military solution to the crisis in Ukraine. This is true, albeit from their own perspective.…

A Global Role for Europe

The U.S. pivot to Asia forces Europe to rethink the way it projects power in the world By Prof. Dr. Sven Bernhard Gareis, Marshall Center In April 2014, U.S. President Barack Obama visited Japan, the Philippines, South Korea and…

The EU & NATO

Promoting collaboration between two of the world’s most powerful organizations By Dr. Dinos Anthony Kerigan-Kyrou Emerging Security Challenges Working Group The European Union and NATO are quite different organizations. The EU,…

A New Generation of Warfare

Russia has taken advantage of European disunity to wage asymmetric warfare By Dr. Jānis Bērziņš National Defense Academy of Latvia, Center for Security and Strategic Research Russia’s belligerent attitude toward Ukraine surprised…

Improving the Neighborhood

NATO and the EU have a joint role to play in stabilizing Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and North Africa By Daniel Ionita, Romanian secretary of state for strategic affairs within the Foreign Affairs Ministry Laria Stoian, Diplomat in the…