NATO Strategic Concept 2022: Renewed Strategic Rivalry amongst Russia’s Increasing Aggression and China’s Rise

On June 29, 2022, in Madrid, NATO Heads of State and Government endorsed a redesigned Strategic Concept for the Alliance. This Concept outlines the Alliance’s priorities, core tasks, and approaches for the following decade. In this context, the concept note outlines the Alliance’s security environment, underlines NATO’s values, and puts forth the Alliance’s main objective

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Iraq: Stabilising the Contested District of Sinjar

  By Mariah Abdelaziz   At the Centerstage: In October 2020, Baghdad and Erbil signed an agreement intended to build stability in Iraq’s Sinjar district through a new administration and security structure that would let displaced people return. The deal is only partly fulfilled, however. Turkey is intensifying bombardment of the PKK and its affiliates

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The Impact of Terrorism in Africa on the European Decision-Making: Lessons from the French Intervention in Mali

    A collaborated study by EUNACR’s War and Economic Intelligence Unit Research staff.   By: Shady El-Sherif, Mariah, Omar Sherif, Rumaysa Bekic, Bassant Owf, Eriny Girgis         INTRODUCTION The French intervention in Mali in early 2013 emphasizes that the decision-makers in Paris, Brussels, and Washington considered the establishment of the radical

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The Yazidi Women Survivors Law and Ensuring an Effective Reparations Programme in Iraq

      By: Mariah Abdel-Aziz   At the Center Stage:   In a statement marking seven years since ISIL terrorists brutally and systematically targeted religious minorities in Sinjar, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on Iraqi authorities to begin implementation of the Yazidi Survivors Law to assist Yazidi and other survivors of ISIL atrocities.

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