Editorial paper at Robert Lansing Institute

Russia seeking to buy up Hezbollah’s engagement

The Kremlin is more and more gambling on foreign terrorism network, set to become an assault force for Russia to tackle the geopolitical issues, and sabotage the effort by the…

March 16, 2021Hezbollah, Lebanon, Russia

Propaganda and Disinformation

Russia is running a vaccine disinformation campaign as part of a hybrid war with the West

Russia continues running a subversive information campaign aimed at both discrediting vaccines produced in the United States and Europe, and vaccination itself. The campaign’s goal is use of the pandemic…

March 15, 2021Covid-19

Terrorism

Sinwar’s re-election as the head of Hamas’s Gaza office to rise challenges both for Israel and group’s top-leadership

Hamas under Yahya Sinwar will be pushed to closer ties with Iran and could become more radical in relations with Israel. However, it is likely that Sinwar will face a growing standoff…

March 11, 2021Egypt, HAMAS, Iran, Nizar Awadallah, Palestine, Yahya Sinwar

Geopolitics

Serbia’s dangerous alliances and influences

Serbia is a country that constantly tries to play the role of “big brother” in the Western Balkans, even if it creates problems with its neighbor countries, or even interfering…

March 10, 2021Arbesa Hoxha, Kosovo, Serbia

Governance

Côte d’Ivoire to preserve stability if President Ouattara gives democratic response to legislative election results

After months of political turmoil, voters in Ivory Coast choosed legislators in elections on Saturday, March 6th. The poll is seen as a test for the nation’s stability after the presidential election in October was marred by…

March 9, 2021Alassane Ouattara, Cote d’Ivoire

Democracy Governance

El Salvador is distancing from democracy under the populist President Bukele, nearing authoritarian trend

The election in El Salvador confirmed fears that there will soon be few checks left to rein in Bukele’s authoritarian drift. The danger at this moment is the functioning of democratic institutions. …

March 5, 2021Salvador

Intelligence ops

Covert arms transfer schemes for terrorism network

In 2017-2018, Gen Nicholson claimed Russia had conducted a series of exercises on the Afghan border with Tajikistan. "These are counter terrorism exercises," said Gen Nicholson, "but we've seen the Russian…

March 3, 2021ISIS, Pakistan, Russia, Taliban

Must Read PDF Terrorism

Disrupting the ISI-Taliban Relationship: a Principal-agent Approach, 2018

This study by Naval Postgraduate school, Monterey, California, argues hat principal-agent theory provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani state. This perspective assists…

March 2, 2021Taliban

Geopolitics

Belarus is going into Moscow-controlled military dictatorship

Belarus fell into dependence on Russia. Moscow controls the situation in Minsk more and more often. Western European countries’ pressure on Lukashenko has no sense as the Kremlin determines and…

March 2, 2021Belarus, Russia

Healthcare

Vaccination challenges: vaccine shortage and unfair competition

Poor quantity of vaccine manufacturing capacity against the backdrop of high global demand provokes unfair competition between manufacturers, as well as differentiation of countries based on their ability to contract…

February 25, 2021Covid-19

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