Eurasia

This article is based principally on a report authored by Joel Burke and published by the National Defense Industry Association’s Emerging Technologies Institute in September 2024 titled, Inside Estonia: How the EU’s E-State Thinks About Defense Tech. For Estonia,...

The following conversation was recorded in September 2024 and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here.    Rick Landgraf:  This is the Ties That Bind, a special podcast series on NATO brought to you...

The following report was produced in partnership with the Applied Policy Research Institute Armenia.  Executive Summary The article examines the significant geopolitical ramifications of the upcoming 2024 elections in the Republic of Georgia and the United States, in relation...

Introduction Historically, Russia has done everything it can to keep countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union in its so-called “sphere of influence” as far from the West’s orbit as possible. However, in recent years, some of...

On Monday, September 16, 2024, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that the US had completed its military withdrawal from Niger, leaving behind only its embassy security detachment. Unlike the rapid and chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021,...

The following conversation was recorded in September 2024 and has been edited for clarity. You can listen to the conversation here.  The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants alone and do not represent those of...

On the morning of September 7, an armed Russian kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landed in Gaigalava parish in Eastern Latvia. The UAV was a Shahed 136-type drone of Iranian descent, which Russia uses widely in its war in...

On a sunny Sunday afternoon, August 30, Russia launched five glide bombs toward Kharkiv. One bomb obliterated the entrance of a twelve-story residential building, where a seventy-one-year-old burned alive. Another killed a fourteen-year-old girl sitting on a bench in...

The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have an enduring connection to their occupation by the Soviet Union — they are all still on the Soviet-era power grid, controlled today by Moscow. The project to decouple the power...

In early August, the Ukrainian army broke into Russia and, virtually undeterred, rapidly advanced seizing a significant area of the borderline region of Kursk. Given that this was the first foreign invasion of Russia since World War II, Russia’s...