Little can be done at the moment to resolve fully grown differences between major international actors, but a number of measures could be adopted to reduce unnecessary military risk.
Lukasz Kulesa examines the challenges faced in security environment of the Baltic Sea region and presents the opportunities for effective arms control.
Five scenarios of instability that could worsen the ongoing Russia-West confrontation and how they could be preemptively managed.
Arseny Sivitsky argues that the red lines imposed on Belarus by the Kremlin are far tougher than those imposed on other post-Soviet states. If Belarus is perceived to be about to cross them, Russia could well react in the same way it did in Ukraine.
Predictable election results in Belarus may still lead to improvement of Minsk’s relations with the EU .