To be responsible digital players, states need to address the environmental cost of using digital services that rely on large volumes of data and to promote green solutions as part of their international digital engagement strategies. For the EU’s foreign policy, this means embracing ‘green digi...
Current US foresight mechanisms emerged in the 1990s with the Global Trends series. In the aftermath of 9/11, foresight became a critical tool for informing policymaking. Scenarios became more and more elaborated and included foreign experts’ views....
Brexit brings significant challenges for the EU and Britain alike in a host of foreign, security and defence areas. Britain has opted for a rejection of historic obligations, shifting to a transactional relationship with the EU that could be structurally and normatively challenging. The EU needs...
Violent extremism has become a growing threat throughout the African continent: all sub-regions have experienced the emergence of groups active across state boundaries. Today, armed actors engaging in violent extremism in the continent are mainly affiliated with Islamist militant groups and part...
The implementation of the peace agreement that was signed between the Colombian government and the rebel FARC movement in 2016 faces a variety of challenges. This Brief examines the current state of play and explores how the EU can support the implementation process and reconciliation efforts in...
This Conflict Series Brief investigates the challenges and opportunities of cooperation between ECOWARN, the most sophisticated African regional EWEA system, and CEWS, a continental hub for data collection and analysis. It begins by analysing the impact of a lack of clear and systematic collabor...
Russian strategic planning currently focuses on the long-term future, projecting up to 2030 and beyond. The Russian foresight debate has absorbed the influence of certain international thinkers, but despite some similarities to Western perspectives, there are important specificities in Russian f...
Armenia’s 2018 Velvet Revolution did not change the country’s foreign and security policy priorities: a close security alliance with Russia has been used to balance its regional adversaries Turkey and Azerbaijan; however, the revolutionary prime minister Nikol Pashinyan has also attempted to inc...
This Brief analyses to what extent the Russian-brokered ceasefire agreement of November 2020 has created the basis for a lasting settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh. The deployment of Russian troops in the region may lead to a new ‘freezing’ of the conflict resolution process, instead of politically ...
Foresight is an underdeveloped field of study in Chinese academic and political circles: it has not been conceptualised or institutionalised to the same degree as in the West, and is noticeably absent in institutional bodies and frameworks dedicated to the analysis of international relations....