This report was adopted by the Committee on Democracy and Security at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The information crisis surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and the events at the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021 have laid bare the destabilizing effects of…

This resolution was presented by the Defence and Security Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly on Monday 11 October 2021.  

This report was adopted by the Science and Technology Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed global vulnerabilities to biological threats and refocused attention on the possibility of deliberate biological attacks.…

This resolution was presented by the Political Committee and adopted by the Plenary Assembly on Monday 11 October 2021.  

This report was adopted by the Political Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The Mediterranean Sea has three strategic entry points, providing access to the Atlantic Ocean, the Red Sea which leads to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and the Black Sea…

Over the last two decades, Iraq has undergone civil war, occupation, a rise in sectarianism and a deep crisis of confidence in the state and its institutions. Some observers claim that Iraq itself is an artificial construct, an amalgam of ethnically and religiously varied populations too diverse to…

This report was adopted by the Economics and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The COVID-19 pandemic and the global recession it has triggered have placed serious pressures on Allied defence budgets. As governments enact fiscal stimulus…

This report was adopted by the Economics and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   The longer-term consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the global economy are coming into focus. The pandemic is now recognised as having constituted the…

This report was adopted by the Defence and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon. Beijing is investing in modern armed forces capable of defending China’s increasingly global interests. The modernisation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is…

This report was adopted by the Committee on Democracy and Security on 9 October 2021, at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon, Portugal.   For Allied societies, the COVID-19 pandemic has painfully demonstrated the importance of strengthening their preparedness and…

Over the last two decades, Iraq has undergone civil war, occupation, a rise in sectarianism and a deep crisis of confidence in the state and its institutions. Some observers claim that Iraq itself is an artificial construct, an amalgam of ethnically and religiously varied populations too diverse to…

This report was adopted by the Science and Technology Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   NATO has continuously fostered its cooperation with countries that lie outside the geographical  scope of the Alliance. Through a series of programmes and…

This report was adopted by the Defence and Security Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   In the past two decades, the United States, Russia, and China have developed diverging perceptions of the international security environment. At the US-Russia…

This report was adopted by the Political Committee at the Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Lisbon.   Relations between Russia and West are currently at a new post-Soviet low and the prospects of a new reset of relations are bleak at best. NATO’s prudent dual track approach to…

In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced perhaps the most ambitious investment and infrastructure programme ever conceived. The ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI) has since become the boldest expression yet of China’s global economic, diplomatic, and strategic ambitions. This report argues…

As the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing recession are transforming the global security landscape, the Gulf region finds itself in a particularly vulnerable situation. The region’s volatile security environment was already of significant concern to the Allies and the international community years…

COVID-19 first appeared in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region in January 2020 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Since then the number of reported cases in the region has increased substantially. With the exception of Iran, infection rates in the region have not approached those of…

The Black Sea region is at once alive with economic potential and imperilled by division, rivalry and conflict ¬¬¬– all with implications for the international system as a whole. It is an area united by an important waterway that links the littoral countries and hinterlands to the global economy.…

The global community is currently undergoing the most consequential pandemic since the outbreak of Spanish influenza in 1918-19. Pandemics, however, are not as rare as many have thought. Indeed, there have been four major pandemics over the last 120 years when flu viruses genetically mutated, and…