Category: Expert Opinion
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Medea Ivaniadze International Relations specialist, China Researcher, and Master’s Student at the University of Tartu. Download PDF In an ever-evolving digital environment, information operations have become one of the main features of contemporary geopolitical competition. One active arena is the Indo-Pacific region, where China aspires to further its regional and geopolitical objectives, while another major…
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Megi Benia Founder and Director of the Strategic Security Initiative (SSI) and Contributing Editor at New Eastern Europe. Download PDF Introduction Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine has accelerated NATO’s return to territorial defence, high readiness force generation, regional planning, military mobility, and higher defence expenditure, thereby confirming that major interstate conflict in Europe can no…
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Nino Imedashvili Associate Professor, Caucasus University. Download PDF Introduction On 25 June 2024, the European Union officially launched accession negotiations with Moldova, a decision that was decisively determined by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, in which Moldova assumed a critical strategic role. The country simultaneously functions as a logistical corridor, ensuring the transit of Ukrainian agricultural…
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Revaz Topuria Research Fellow, UG Security, Policy and Nationalism Research Center; Lecturer at University of Georgia Download PDF 1. Introduction In March 2026, China’s National People’s Congress approved the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), a document that mentions artificial intelligence over 50 times. For comparison, the previous five-year plan referenced the term just six times (Flanders-China…