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A new Clash on the Line of Actual Control

Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, in a speech to parliament, announced the prevention of an attempt by the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) to cross the Indian-Chinese border. According to the minister, Chinese troops have made an attempt to unilaterally change the status quo on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Indian…
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2% and Beyond: NATO Defence Spending will Grow

Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO stated that 2022 will be the eighth consecutive year of increased defence spending among the alliance members. Since 2014 member states of NATO have spent over $350 billion on military purposes. The spending is going to rise and probably even more intensively.  In accordance with the current agreements, NATO…
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UNIDIR: A Taxonomy of Malicious ICT Incidents

The international community is expressing growing concerns regarding threats in the sphere of information communication technology (ICT) security. The exprets from the United Nations Open-ended working group stated that “ICT incidents are increasing in frequency and sophistication, and are constantly evolving and diversifying” Member States have also acknowledged that the threat landscape varies by region…
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Stability is Cracking: Interim Results of the NPT Review Conference

The Tenth NPT Review Conference is still ongoing, and this year the conference is taking place in very specific circumstances and in the context unprecedented tension between the nuclear weapons states since the end of the Cold War. Thus the statements made by the parties during the conference to some extent clarify the shape of…
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Food and Commodities Crisis is Going to Sharpen

According to the Global Crisis Response Group more and more people are now forecast to be pushed into food insecurity and extreme poverty by the end of 2022. There is an estimate that 345 million people will be acutely food insecure or at a high risk of food insecurity in 82 countries in 2022. Meanwhile,…
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Global Energy Market at the Crossroads

The world is in the grip of a major energy crisis, with countries worldwide affected by extremely high and volatile prices, particularly of fossil fuels. This situation has acted as a crucible for recent trends in the energy market. Over the preceding two years, the energy market experienced extreme price volatility, such as during the…
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The EU Sanctions: mechanism and prospects

Until the EU imposed sanctions on Russia in 2014, few Europeans were aware that the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) entailed the imposition of sanctions. Member States had been enacting sanctions jointly since the early 1980s; in the initial decades, European measures had modest economic consequences, but it has changed. The increasing centrality of…
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Fighting Nuclear Terrorism is Going Successfully

The Tenth NPT Review Conference is ongoing, but apart from the Conference there are various side-events, dedicated to the relevant problems of the sphere.  One of them was the event, jointly organized by the UN Counter-Terrorism Center and the EU, where the parties discussed the problem of nuclear terrorism. During the meeting heads of various…
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New Page in the EU Defence Policy?

The expansion of autonomous European capacities in the field of defense and security has been discussed in the EU for several years. The topic became even more relevant after February 24. Experts of the Carnegie Europe analytical center tried to answer the question of how serious the EU's intentions are in the field of building…
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IMF: Why We Must Resist Geoeconomic Fragmentation—And How?

According to a team of experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the world economy is going through the most serious shock since the Second World War. Geo-economic fragmentation is seen as an undesirable outcome of the current crisis. In the report, IMF experts explain how and why the world should avoid such a scenario.…
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