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Our Expert's Defence & Security section is dedicated to the delivery of strategic insight and the elaboration of sustainable policy solutions focusing on the theory and practice of international security studies. Academics, policy experts and decision-makers from all around the world share their viewpoints and researches on a plethora of security-related thematic concentrations. Among these include, just to mention a few, the relationship between security discourse and practice, European defense, WMD proliferation, the military-industrial complex, NATO, cybersecurity, critical security studies and human security.

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What does Defence Policy look like for the United Kingdom in 2025?

Robbie Duff

The United Kingdom’s defence policy in 2025 is shaped by the tension between its strategic ambitions within the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ and NATO, and the fiscal constraints it faces.…

Titan, Risk Analysis & Insights, Defence & Security

The South China Sea as the Enabling Battlespace of Maritime Control

Nelson Paderes Liwanag

Control of the South China Sea determines strategic leverage in the Indo-Pacific, driving sustained great-power rivalry, grey-zone coercion, and complex hedging by Taiwan, the Philippines and ASEAN amid shifting US-China…

News, South America, North America, Experts, Defence & Security, International Relations

From Sanctions to Seizure: Washington’s Use of Military Force in Venezuela

Ama Lotlana

The US seizure of Nicolás Maduro marks an unprecedented breach of Venezuelan sovereignty that escalates long-simmering sanctions, criminalisation and covert pressure into open military intervention with profound regional and legal…