Publications

Over the past five years, several political and security developments have made it increasingly necessary to look at European Union (EU) / North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) relations through a different lens.

Confronted with a strained strategic environment and a relative decline of its resource base, Australia is currently going through a historical shift of its global status. 

While it was left behind from power politics for the last decades, Africa is at the core of a renewed attention from global powers.

Information dominance through the exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum has become a cornerstone of military superiority. However, it is now threatened by increasingly advanced electronic warfare capabilities.

Although the first and foremost domain in the history of warfare, Land power has been dissociated from the concept of “strategic forces” for some time now, as these generally referred to long-range and/or high-yield strike capabilities, above all nuclear weapons. 

Operational command structures have always been able to adapt to the strategic context. However, they now face a new challenge: high intensity threats. 

Urbanization is a relentless trend, and as cities grow and expand, armed conflict and violence are urbanizing as well. 

Despite a relative weakening since 2017, the international jihadist movement should continue to pose a genuine threat over the next decade.

Although it had never entirely disappeared, the surface-to-air threat was mitigated for three decades by Western air superiority. It now benefits from a modernization and dissemination momentum that will increasingly hinder expeditionary forces’ freedom of action. 

Nowadays, numerous actors are involved in military cooperation programs aiming to strengthen African armed forces and build special partnerships.