Time for the Sleeping Beauty to wake
Whether Europe will be able to make a difference in foreign policy depends on whether member states can fulfil PESCO’s commitments
European Security Initiative
Attribution is what states make of it
It is high-time for the Europeans to wake up from their hopes and dreams to build norms and rules for state behaviour in cyberspace
The coming clash: Why Iran will divide Europe from the United States
Europe must salvage the nuclear deal with Iran and step-up robust diplomacy with Teran on regional issues
The UN GGE is dead: Time to fall forward
The top down UN GGE process appears dead in the water. International norms and laws for responding to cyber attacks must now be built from the bottom up
Countering online radicalisation
Part of the solution is to rely on the internet’s most essential strength – its vast army of ordinary users
Cybersecurity: what future for international relations?
ECFR’s director Mark Leonard talks with Herbert S. Lin, Senior Research Scholar for Cyber Policy and Security at Stanford University, about cybersecurity, fake news and…
At last, the stars are aligned for European defence
It is beginning to look as though the concept of ring-fencing or reserving a portion of national budgets to be spent collaboratively might finally get airborne
Influence by default: Europe’s impact on military security in East Asia
In the continued absence of a policy, European commercial actions in the armament sector could have a destabilising impact on Asian security
Crimintern: How the Kremlin uses Russia’s criminal networks in Europe
European states and institutions have to consider the challenges posed by Russian-based organised crime, and adopt measures to combat it
Trident replacement: losing its vocation?
Britain’s departure from the EU may make the case for its nuclear deterrent replacement harder to sustain