Estonia should respond to challenges as they emerge. Currently, Estonia is grappling not with an imminent Russian attack, but with public perceptions of security and their susceptibility to political manipulation — a factor that can enhance the effectiveness of Estonian response should the threat of Russian invasion materialise.

That the PRC’s propaganda is now pivoting towards deterring China’s partners is no surprise, as the PLA has long recognized the ability to deter or defeat U.S. intervention attempts as central to any military effort to take Taiwan.

While the Trump administration’s approach to Taiwan is continuing to coalesce, current signs indicate no dramatic departure from long-standing positions.

Taken together, Ukraine’s integration of AI into each stage of the “Kill Chain” reveals a military strategy that serves as a lesson for militaries across the West. From reconnaissance to the final strike, AI has been steadily integrated and skilfully deployed by the Ukrainian resistance, proving itself to be an indispensable asset in modern warfare.

Behind the spectacle in the media, AA serves as another extension of the historic anti-illegal immigration policy enacted by the initial Trump administration almost a decade ago. With antagonistic roots found in the migration protection protocols, the legislative groundwork that allowed for the “Remain in Mexico” (RMX) program aimed at strict border enforcement on the Southern US-Mexico border, it became clear that AA was not built in isolation from previous policy decisions.

Vladimir Putin’s reintegration of Orthodoxy into the political and social sphere in Russia has a very similar feel to it as Prince Vladimir’s Great Choice just over a millennium ago.

Spurred by an increasing interest in space and the inevitability of other countries making the leap as well, the United Nations (UN) in 1967 adopted the Outer Space Treaty (OST), the first in a series of Cold War era international space laws, much of which has become inadequate for the 21st century.

If negotiations between Tokyo and Washington do not terminate positively,, there is the risk that their economic interdependence between Japan and China will increase to the point that former becomes dangerously vulnerable to geopolitical shocks, as was the case with Germany and Russia in the leadup to the latter’s invasion of Ukraine.

HSC Deputy Director Dr Rowan Allport is giving evidence to the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee’s inquiry ‘The UK contribution to European Security’ on Tuesday 29 April 2025.

There is no doubt that Russian state security services are in a strong position — rebuilding quickly after a tricky few years of alleged intelligence failures at the start of the Ukraine War.