Section: The Central European Policy Institute (Slovakia)
One NATO: The Political Adaptation of the Alliance
By Alexander Vershbow.“In light of the changed and evolving security environment, further adaptation is needed. Therefore, we have decided to further strengthen the Alliance’s deterrence and defence posture”. Alexander VershbowThe Warsaw Summit Communique, 8-9 July 2018 The Allies must face political reality America’s NATO allies have...
NATO-Serbia Relations: Still Defining the Modus Vivendi
By Tomáš Nagy and Ján Cingeľ. Photo|Flickr: nofrills, licensed by CC BY-NC 2.0 p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Trebuchet MS’; min-height: 14.0px} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.5px ‘Trebuchet MS’} span.s1 {font: 12.0px ‘Trebuchet MS’}Serbia´s relations with the Alliance has...
Countering Information War Lessons Learned from NATO and Partner Countries: Recommendations and Conclusions
By Daniel Milo and Katarína Klingová.”Russia is waging the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen in the history of information warfare.“Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO Wales summit, September 2014.In 2013, General Valery Gerasimov published an article, now know famously as “Gerasimov’s Doctrine”, which defined...
V4+ Security: Strengthening the Eastern Frontier of the V4: Bratislava Roundtable
By Public Relations.On Wednesday, March 1st, the GLOBSEC Policy Institute’s (GPI) Defence and Security Programme experts hosted more than a dozen of international security experts from 4 counties for a series of policy discussions within the framework of the V4+ Security: Strengthening the Eastern Frontier of the V4 project.The keynote...
Russian-Hungarian déja-vu?
By Grigorij Mesežnikov. Photo: TAST/APRelations of Central European countries with other states are nowadays mainly determined by their belonging to the collective West. Central European countries’ membership in the EU and NATO which resulted from the complex social transformation and geopolitical turnover after the fall of the communist...
The beginning of the end of the EU-Russia geopolitical gas drama
By Nolan Theisen. Photo: Flickr|Bilfinger SE, licensed by CC BY-ND 2.0.After years of mostly unrivaled gas market dominance and segmentation in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the energy relationship between Gazprom and the region is gradually equalizing thanks to successful market liberalization and integration in Europe. Greater...
Information war monitor for Central Europe: January 2017 Part 1
By Lóránt Győri, Patrik Szicherle, Veronika Víchová, Daniel Milo, Katarína Klingová. Photo: Flickr|Victor van Dijk, licensed by CC BY-NC 2.0At the beginning of 2017, stories about crimes, allegedly committed by migrants, dominated the media sphere in many countries, particularly those in Central Europe. Pro-Russian propaganda in the Czech...
The truth (Pravda) about recruits
By Grigorij Mesežnikov. Photo: Slovenskí branci.Russian Pravda (Truth) considers the projects of the Polish militia hostile. What would it write about recruits in Slovakia?The course of the current Russian leadership to the confrontation with the West, which was presented in its outlines by Vladimir Putin in his Munich speech in 2007 and was...
The truth (Pravda) about recruits
By Grigorij Mesežnikov. Photo: Slovenskí branci.Russian Pravda (Truth) considers the projects of the Polish militia hostile. What would it write about recruits in Slovakia?The course of the current Russian leadership to the confrontation with the West, which was presented in its outlines by Vladimir Putin in his Munich speech in 2007 and was...
Cracks Appearing
By Milan Nič. Photo: Reuters|Laszlo Balogh.Viktor Orbán has been in preaching mode recently. Hungary’s prime minister no longer complains about Germany’s “moral imperialism,” as he did at the peak of Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015. He now enthusiastically frames 2017 as “a year of revolt” within the EU: He sees the upcoming...
