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This conference report captures discussions from a SIFMANet workshop held in November 2024 in Helsinki. It provides an overview of Finland’s sanctions journey, the private sector’s perspective, the country’s unique challenges, and the practical steps taken to ensure compliance and enforcement.

Russia’s economic resilience is defying expectations, enabling the Kremlin to sustain its war efforts in Ukraine despite mounting challenges, and raising doubts about hopes for a swift resolution.

Join Nina Jankowicz as she recounts her experience with disinformation campaigns and explores with Arthur Snell the global impact of misinformation.

This Conference Report relates to the second SIFMANET Brussels workshop held in November 2024, which focused on the diplomatic and coercive measures available to secure greater cooperation to counter sanctions circumvention through third countries that have chosen not to adopt sanctions against Russia.

Modern Turkey was forged by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from the Ottoman Empire’s collapse. In this episode, Dr Mesut Uyar joins us to discuss Atatürk’s legacy of strategic leadership.

The UK government has announced a new sanctions regime targeting organised immigration crime. How does it ensure these new sanctions have teeth?

Ukraine's evolving search for security guarantees reflects hard-learned lessons from the Budapest Memorandum, with bilateral agreements offering hope yet raising critical uncertainties.

As President Trump is sworn in, Dr Burcu Ozcelik, our Senior Research Fellow for Middle East Security, reflects on what this means for the Middle East.

South Africa’s apartheid-era ‘Bantustans’ exemplified state-sponsored pseudo-independence. Today, history risks repeating itself in Russia’s occupied Ukrainian territories, though this irony seems lost on some African politicians.

Talk of state threats, hostile states and hybrid warfare has notably increased. But how do these threats differ from those faced in the past?

A tentative ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has been announced by the US and Qatar. We're joined by Alex Hall Hall and Jane Kinninmont to discuss.

This report details the discussions at a workshop held in Brussels in November 2024 on challenges around sanctions implementation and related policy issues requiring collaboration within and across governments, and between the public and private sectors

Labour’s ambitious AI Opportunities Action Plan sets a strong vision to leverage AI technologies for UK economic growth. How realistic are these plans, and do they come at the cost of AI safety, the previous government’s priority?

As Turkey asserts its ‘Blue Homeland’ doctrine, Cyprus faces mounting challenges over maritime rights and energy security in an increasingly volatile Eastern Mediterranean.

At the start of 2025, we reflect on security challenges from the previous year and look at what to expect in the coming months.

What does Africa look like in the Age of Disorder? Jason is joined this week by Professor Clionadh Raleigh, creator of Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED), a US-based NGO, and Professor of Political Violence and Geography at the University of Sussex.

Russia's Mediterranean foothold faces uncertainty, with Tartus’s future hanging in the balance and alternative bases in Libya and Algeria offering limited, politically fraught substitutes.

A discussion on the growing covert threat from hostile states and their proxies.