Climate change is reshaping how goods are transported around the globe. With smaller ice caps in the Arctic, ships and tankers are able to navigate new routes. This scenario is especially helpful to the northernmost territories who want to find faster maritime routes. Access to the Arctic has other benefits too so it is important to understand what is at stake when it comes to having control over strategic territories. In the last year, there has been a lot of discussion over

(Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters Introduction: The invasion of Ukraine in 2022 marked the return of war on the old continent and demonstrated the need for NATO countries to finally reach the goal of 2% of their GDP in military expenditures. Between 2020 and 2024, Europe accounted for 28.1% of the global arms imports, compared to only 11% between 2015 and 2019 . As the war keeps raging in Ukraine, European countries maintain their efforts to rearm themselves, in a clea

Introduction Europe is building a wall. Not made of concrete, but with code, signals and radar. What began as a suggestion from Lithuania, has evolved into one of the European Union’s largest and most complex defense projects, a ‘Drone wall’ stretching from the Baltics down to the Black Sea.  The ‘Drone Wall’, formally known as the European Drone Defense Initiative is part of the EU's broader Defense Readiness Roadmap 2030, and has been announced in response to the rising num