The politics of great and emerging powers

Ericsson’s position as a 5G tech leader shows multinationals can overcome a post-China future

How China Lost the Nordic countries

Can Europe stay ahead in green and 5G technologies?

Despite its turbulent domestic politics, Ukraine rarely featured at the top of the EU’s security agenda in the post-Soviet period. The scale of current Russian military intervention changed that, bringing the war to the EU’s doorstep, and challenging a previously lenient approach to Russia which the EU refused to see as a potential aggressor. The current conflict is an expression of Putin’s geopolitical aspirations and his desperate attempt to maintain a Russian grip on its “near abroad”. However, it is also a culmination of Ukraine’s long struggle for national self-determination on multiple levels.

In the short term, the tangible support that China can provide to Russia is limited, but the strategic implications are more profound

The possibility for collective action against China’s economic coercion seems more likely than ever.

Podcast on security politics in the Arctic