Every year, DIIS carries out a number of defence and security studies. Among other things, the focus is on cyber threats, hybrid actors, climate and conflict, as well as challenges to global cooperation.
On May 28, states parties at the Eighth Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) issued a consensus document. The most contentious part dealt with the issue of a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East, raising the question: can the region really be free of WMD?
In 2013 Greenland’s parliament lifted the so-called zero-tolerance policy by a narrow majority, thus opening up Greenland’s vast uranium reserves for extraction. The genesis of the zero-tolerance policy is however, unclear. This demonstrates the Kingdom must articulate a clearly defined policy for uranium production and trade.
Recently the question of whether it makes political, moral and strategic sense to negotiate with the Pakistani Taliban was debated fiercely in Pakistani media. Despite widespread skepticism there are good reasons for the Pakistani government to keep pursuing a durable peace deal with the Taliban.