No Monopoly Left: How Drone Warfare Escaped Its Architects
Something is becoming impossible to ignore: wherever you look today – the skies above eastern Ukraine, the Persian Gulf, the plains of Burkina Faso – drones are reshaping the logic […]
Publications
Outcome Pending Negotiations: The 2026 NPT Review Conference as a Narrative Battleground
The NPT Review Conference in May 2026 promises to be a battle between competing narratives about the evolution of the global nuclear order. This CSDS In-Depth Paper provides observers and […]
From Deal to Rules: An EU Offer for TRIPP and Middle Corridor Governance
In August 2025, Armenia and Azerbaijan, which have never established diplomatic relations, initialled a peace agreement at the White House. It was the most significant step towards normalising relations since […]
Security Force Assistance, Social Networks, Coups, and the Re-Ordering of Power Relations
Security Force Assistance (SFA) delivered to fragile states where external and national actors share a common enemy aims to reinforce the national military and security actors more broadly. Such assistance […]
Bénin, présidentielle 2026 : vitrine démocratique et fractures silencieuses
Le Bénin aime à se raconter comme une exception. Et il n’a pas tout à fait tort. Dans une sous-région où les coups d’État se sont enchaînés à un rythme […]
Making Russia Fear Escalation Again
Russia’s hybrid war against Europe continues to expand, with drone sightings, cyber-attacks, airspace violations, disinformation campaigns, and sabotage operations steadily increasing across the continent. Rather than being a series of […]