Insights & Analysis

Europe's Edge

CEPA’s online journal covering critical topics on the foreign policy docket across Europe and North America.

Photo: Russian soldiers exercise with the Teikovsky missile unit. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defence

All Bluff? Russia’s Nuclear Threats

September 24, 2022

Europe's Edge Hybrid Threats NATO Regional Security Russia

Photo: Finland participated as an observer member in all parts of the NATO Military Committee meeting together with the commanders of the member states. Credit: Chief of the Finnish Defense Forces via Twitter @Finnchod

Finland Gets Russia: So Listen

September 23, 2022

Authoritarian Threats Europe's Edge NATO Regional Security

Photo: Moscow, Russia. 2 November 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a gala event to mark the centenary of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia known as the GRU at the Russian Army Theatre Credit: Planetpix/Alamy Live News

Putin Gambles His Future on Mobilization

September 23, 2022

Authoritarian Threats Civil Society Europe's Edge Regional Security

Photo: Lieutenant General Oleksandr Syrsky shakes the hand of President Zelenskyy. Credit: @armyinformcomua via Twitter

The Ukrainian General Behind Putin’s Defeats

September 23, 2022

Authoritarian Threats Europe's Edge Hybrid Threats Regional Security

Photo: Meeting of the Presidents of Iran and Russia. Credit: Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran Website.

Iran and Russia Seek New Sanctions Evasion Corridor

September 22, 2022

Authoritarian Threats Emerging technology Europe's Edge Regional Security

Photo: Russian Marine Corps conscripts stand in formation in front of Soviet Navy flags as they take the oath in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Crimea December 9, 2017. Credit: REUTERS/Pavel Rebrov

Russia’s Military Manpower Crunch Will Worsen

September 21, 2022

Authoritarian Threats Europe's Edge National Security and Intelligence Regional Security

Photo: The Government of the Netherlands, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the European Commission are hosting an Ukraine Accountability Conference at ministerial level at the World Forum in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 14 July 2022. Credit: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2022

Justice Demands the Arraignment of Russia’s Guilty Men

September 21, 2022

Authoritarian Threats Europe's Edge Regional Security Rule of Law

Photo: Parlement Européen, Strasbourg, France. Credit: Antoine Schibler via Unsplash.

Democracies United Versus Illiberalism

September 21, 2022

Authoritarian Threats Europe's Edge Regional Security Rule of Law

Photo: Evgeny Prigozhin (L) assists Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a dinner with foreign scholars and journalists at the restaurant Cheval Blanc on the premises of an equestrian complex outside Moscow November 11, 2011. Picture taken November 11. Credit: REUTERS/Misha Japaridze/Pool/File Photo

Putin’s Chef Seeks the Ingredients of Death

September 20, 2022

Europe's Edge Hybrid Threats

Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping before an extended-format meeting of heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit (SCO) member states in Samarkand, Uzbekistan September 16, 2022. Credit: Sputnik/Sergey Bobylev/Pool via REUTERS

September 20, 2022

China Europe's Edge Regional Security Russia

Photo: Meeting of the leaders of the CSTO member states, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty and the 20th anniversary of the creation of the CSTO. Credit: CSTO Website. https://en.odkb-csto.org/photogallery/605/

Russian Power Wanes in the Borderlands

September 19, 2022

Europe's Edge National Security and Intelligence Regional Security Russia

Photo: Russian conscripts attend a ceremony before their departure for garrisons, in Omsk, Russia June 17, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko

Putin’s Options Dwindle Despite ‘Coffin Money’

September 16, 2022

Europe's Edge Regional Security Russia

Photo: “Evening with Vladimir Solovyov” Credit: YouTube via Daily Afisha.

The Bewilderment of Kremlin Propagandists

September 16, 2022

Disinformation Europe's Edge Russia

Photo: The IAEA Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhya (ISAMZ) arrives at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine, comprising IAEA nuclear safety, security, and safeguards staff. 1 September 2022. Credit: Fredrik Dahl / IAEA

Time to Confront Russia’s Nuclear Recklessness in Ukraine

September 15, 2022

Europe's Edge Hybrid Threats Regional Security Russia

New Fighting Flares in the South Caucasus

September 13, 2022

Europe's Edge Regional Security

Image: RYAZAN, RUSSIA - SEPTEMBER 17, 2021: A girl and cadets of the Margelov Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School vote in the 2021 Russian parliamentary election at polling station No 1019. Russia holds legislative elections on 17-19 September 2021; voters will go to the polls to elect members of the Russian State Duma; voters will also elect heads of nine Russian regions and 39 constituent regions of Russia will hold regional parliamentary elections. Credit: Alexander Ryumin/TASS.

Kremlin Lifts Electoral Burden From Voters

September 13, 2022

Elections Europe's Edge Rule of Law Russia

The War of Putin’s Defeat

September 13, 2022

Europe's Edge Regional Security Russia

Photo: Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan addresses parliament following an escalation in hostilities over the Nagorno-Karabakh region along the border of Armenia with Azerbaijan, in Yerevan, Armenia, September 13, 2022. Credit: Tigran Mehrabyan/PAN Photo via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT.

New Fighting Flares in the South Caucasus

September 13, 2022

Europe's Edge Regional Security Russia

Photo: Sweden's Prime Minister and Party leader of the Social Democrats Magdalena Andersson vote for the general elections at a polling station in Nacka outside Stockholm, Sweden, September 11, 2022. Credit: Ali Lorestani/TT News Agency/via REUTERS

Sweden Pays for a Negative Election

September 13, 2022

Civil Society Elections Europe's Edge

Photo: Russian Islamic Institute. Credit: Russian Islamic Institute Website.

An Education: Islamic Universities in Russia

September 12, 2022

Civil Society Europe's Edge Russia

Photo: Britain's Queen Elizabeth views the interior of the refurbished East Wing of Somerset House at King's College in London, Britain, February 29, 2012. Credit: Eddie Mulholland/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

The Elizabethan Era

September 9, 2022

Civil Society Europe's Edge Rule of Law

Photo: A flag of Abkhazia is on display inside a car in the town of Tkvarcheli, some 50 km (31 miles) southeast of Sukhumi, the capital of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia December 27, 2013. The territory of Abkhazia is located several miles southwest of the border with Russia and the Olympic Park in the Adler district of the Black Sea resort city of Sochi which will host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in February. Abkhaz separatists fought Georgian government forces in 1992-1993, after which the breakaway region declared independence. Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Vanuatu and Tuvalu recognized Abkhazia as an independent state while all other countries regard it as a Georgian province, according to local media. Picture taken December 27, 2013. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov.

Russia’s Caucasian Vassals Learn a Hard Lesson

September 9, 2022

Europe's Edge Regional Security Russia

Close to the Wind: Executive Summary

September 9, 2022

Baltic Sea Defense Innovation Europe's Edge NATO Regional Security Russia

Close to the Wind: The Military Threat

September 9, 2022

Baltic Sea Defense Innovation Europe's Edge NATO Regional Security Russia

Photo: Duga zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine. Credit: Yves Alarie via Unsplash.

For Russia, Nuclear Plants Are Nuclear Bombs

September 9, 2022

Europe's Edge Regional Security

Photo: A man looks on a screen showing polling stations, at the headquarters of Russia's Central Election Commission in Moscow, Russia September 19, 2021. Credit: REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov.

Russian Cyberwarfare: Unpacking the Kremlin’s Capabilities

September 8, 2022

Cybersecurity Europe's Edge Hybrid Threats Russia

Photo: Taipei Energy Hill solar park from above. Credit: Anders J/Unsplash

The West Must Break China’s Solar Chokehold

September 8, 2022

China Emerging technology Europe's Edge

RYAZAN, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 17, 2020: A live TV broadcast of the 16th annual end-of-year news conference by Russia's President Vladimir Putin at a home appliances store. Credit: Alexander Ryumin/TASS

Muzzling the Watchdogs: Russia’s Media Crackdown

September 7, 2022

Civil Society Europe's Edge Rule of Law Russia

Photo: Ukrainian soldier flying a flag in celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day. Credit: Arsen Petrov via Twitter @ArsenPetrovAlex.

Ukraine Is Winning

September 6, 2022

Defense Innovation Europe's Edge Regional Security

Photo: Police stand blocking people taking part in a right-wing protest against increasing energy prices and rising living expenses in Leipzig, Germany, September 5, 2022. Credit: REUTERS/Christian Mang

Germany’s War-Induced Energiewende — a Crisis With Benefits

September 6, 2022

Emerging technology Europe's Edge Regional Security