Within hours of the horrible attack in Las Vegas, before we knew most of the relevant facts about the tragedy, gun control advocates were calling for more gun control. Here is something I would like ...

The European arms control regime inherited from the Cold War is in dire straits. In 2023, Russia suspended cooperation with the United States on a New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), whose ...

This article is part of the CSIS executive education program Understanding the Russian Military Today. The global arms control architecture is crumbling. While this trend is often framed as a ...

Europe has faced its fair share of animal health crises, like the outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian influenza in the Netherlands (2003), and African swine fever. But what about the diseases ...

As the threat of Russian military aggression against Ukraine intensifies, and with diplomacy yielding little so far, some experts have called for a “new European security architecture.” Others, ...

Perhaps like no other exercise since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia’s recently concluded Zapad (West) exercise was of serious concern to NATO’s easternmost members. It provided ample ...

Until June 2014, the Nord Stream-1 gas pipeline lived up to its branding as a secure gas supply for Europe. The twin pipes could deliver more than half of Germany’s annual gas needs. They did so for ...