In spite of the recent Strategic Defence Review, the UK continues to struggle with strategic decision-making and prioritisation in light of the security–prosperity paradox.
The EU and its member states have some options to consider in balancing their security commitments on the continent with engagement in the Indo-Pacific.
Marc Widdowson reviews Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century: The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change, edited by Jack A Goldstone, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev.
Despite having a Western-orientated strategic culture, Georgia’s foreign policy behaviour is also being influenced by other geopolitical and cultural factors.
In spite of early examples of successful defence cooperation in the 1990s, the Baltic states currently compete for Western support rather than pushing for greater defence integration.