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  • The Strategist
    Why Nuclear Doctrinal Stasis is Not a Bad Idea
    Vice Admiral Vijay Shankar.    ·   24 Apr, 2019    ·    #5582    ·    Commentary    
    There is an inherent limit to how precisely predictions can be made, let alone prognosticate impact particularly when polity, power, and people are involved. The historian Michael Howard cautioned against those who would play the oracle: "Doctrina ...
  • What Drives the EU Towards India?
    Pieter-jan Dockx & Manuel Herrera.    ·   14 Mar, 2019    ·    #5566    ·    Commentary    
    On 20 November 2018, the EU published ‘Elements for an EU strategy on India,’ which set out Brussels’ future approach towards New Delhi. This policy paper was the bloc’s most recent publication on EU-India relations, 14 years after its prev ...
  • A Post-INF Nuclear World
    Summaiya Khan.    ·   25 Feb, 2019    ·    #5560    ·    Commentary    
    President Donald Trump's withdrawal of the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty raising complex security concerns with ramifications that could upset an already fractious global nuclear weapons environment. Background ...
  • Strategic Space
    The Abnormal Normal: Time Stands Still at Two Minutes to Midnight
    Manpreet Sethi.    ·   30 Jan, 2019    ·    #5550    ·    Commentary    
    The Doomsday Clock, maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 1947, has come to symbolise a graphic description of the global security situation at any given time. Every year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin, compris ...
  • Can the EU Secure its Strategic Interests through the JCPOA?
    Manuel Herrera.    ·   21 Jan, 2019    ·    #5548    ·    Commentary    
    The EU’s strategic interests with regard to Iran and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) rest on four main pillars: maintaining stability in the Persian Gulf which is vital for global oil supply and prices; resolving conflicts in the ...
  • Collision on Course? An Assessment of EU-US Fall-Out Over the JCPOA
    Manuel Herrera.    ·   25 Dec, 2018    ·    #5536    ·    Commentary    
    President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and resume US primary and secondary sanctions on Iran has positioned the EU and the US on a collision course. There are signs of the EU possibly ...
  • US Sanctions on Iran: An Examination of the EU's Role
    Manuel Herrera.    ·   05 Dec, 2018    ·    #5530    ·    Commentary    
    The US has implemented an expansive set of sanctions against Iran that jeopardise the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). US concerns regarding the agreement are three-fold. According to President Donald Trump's administration, the agreeme ...
  • The Nuclear Consequences of Brexit
    Arushi Vig.    ·   19 Apr, 2018    ·    #5459    ·    Commentary    
    After the 2016 Brexit verdict, one area of several areas of concern is nuclear energy. The British civil nuclear programme was meshed with Euratom since the UK's inclusion in the EU in 1973. One consequence of Brexit is Prime Minister Theresa May ...
  • Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty: Addressing Normative Concerns
    Shivani Singh.    ·   31 Aug, 2017    ·    #5350    ·    Commentary    
    Norms are considered a product of behaviour and expectations, thereby playing a vital role in international law and foreign policy. An example of such norm setting was witnessed in the recently adopted Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, 20 ...
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