Is Ukraine a Security Provider or Security Consumer in Europe? It is a rather rhetorical question. Ukraine has always been an active contributor to European and Euro-Atlantic security. Ukraine’s peacekeeping contingents and personnel participated in a huge number of NATO’ and EU-led operations as well as in numerous missions under the UN umbrella all around…
The Warsaw Summit was held on 8-9 July 2016 with the assumption of “an essential Alliance in a more dangerous world” both in the eastern and in the southern flanks. Bearing in mind that the allies gathered in “a defining moment for the security of our nations and populations”, this contribution aims to analyse the…
The article aims at assessing NATO Warsaw Summit outcomes for the Eastern Flank and the security environment shaped by the Russian-Ukrainian War. The author focuses on developing non-kinetic tasks in the operational art identified within the hybrid approach towards defence. The research presents the main categories and examples of required capabilities within the theatre of…
The weakening of the US global influence in recent years has led to a formation of geopolitical vacuum in various regions of the World, where old and new regional players are rushing to fill their dominance. This led to regional instability, with which the US is already unable to cope. As a result, the international…
This paper analyses the evolution of post-Soviet Russian conceptual and doctrinal visions of conventional deterrence and its current status, prospects and impact on regional and global levels in the framework of Russian strategic military and political thinking. The paper argues that although neglected since the early post-Soviet period, Russian conventional (nonnuclear) deterrence has been revisited…
Once being annexed by Russia, Crimea with the rest of the Black Sea sub-region immediately broke through the front line of the global post-bipolar geopolitics. The author argues that there is an urgent need to re-estimate the traditional input of the key Black Sea actors. This initial reading suggests Russia, as well as NATO, the…
This article examines the circumstances of the armed attack; the first stage of the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine aiming and eventually leading to the occupation and annexation of Crimea in February-March 2014. These events are considered against the background of the role of the Russian Federation Black Sea Fleet deployed on…
Since 2014, the Black Sea regional navy cooperation has seen a dramatic change. From the “Turkish lake concept” and idea of active navy cooperation of littoral states, it has come to the freeze of all original cooperation such as BLACKSEAFOR and Black Sea Harmony and a possibility of a greater NATO involvement in the region….
The NATO-Russia confrontation as one of New Cold War’s manifestations has direct implications for the independence, sovereignty and national security of Belarus. There is a risk Russia will manage to transform Belarus into its outpost in the New Cold War in order to generate conventional and hybrid threats to NATO states and Ukraine. Kremlin may…
