by MKI TM | Sep 26, 2025 | Featured, MKI Policy Brief, News
Policy Brief – Written by Ramachandra Byrappa The world is far from being multipolar, but at the current rate of development and underdevelopment it could easily become so. Conversely, Germany has always had the potential to become a stable pole, but it could quickly...
by MKI TM | Sep 26, 2025 | Featured, MKI Policy Brief, News, Research Centers, Secure Neighborhood
HIIA Analysis – Written by Ruslan Bortnik The history of Ukraine is one big lesson on geopolitical fragility and the absence of effective security guarantees with enforcement mechanisms. Indeed, few countries know the curse of illusory security guarantees better...
by MKI TM | Jul 17, 2025 | Connectivity Center, MKI Policy Brief, News, Research Centers
Policy Brief – Written by Zsolt Trembeczki On balance, the 2025 India–Pakistan conflict’s final outcome was remarkably unremarkable—after a couple rounds of escalation, the two sides agreed to de-escalate as anticipated. While larger in scale, the conflict mostly...
by MKI | Oct 25, 2024 | MKI Policy Brief
Analysis by Péter Goreczky and Zsolt Trembeczki The term ‘derisking’ has become a geopolitical buzzword since Ursula von der Leyen first used it to distinguish the EU’s future China-strategy from Washington’s approach. The aim of this policy brief is to review the...
by MKI | Oct 16, 2024 | MKI Policy Brief
Analysis by Péter Pál Kránitz Central Europe is a hostage to geography and history. Regional states have historically benefited greatly from their position as a hub along the East-West and North-South trade corridors. Later, however, the Iron Curtain and, more...
by MKI | Jul 30, 2024 | Emerging Challenges - Center, Emerging Challenges - publications, MKI Policy Brief, News
Analysis by Ramachandra Byrappa It seems that everyone wants a piece of the African continent, reviving nightmares of a return to the 19th-century European colonisation of the ‘Dark Continent’. Fears of neo-colonialist expansion by European countries like France,...