International security
Measures taken by states and international organizations to ensure mutual safety and survival
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| March 11 2025 | Rachel Ellehuus becomes the new Director-General of RUSI, taking over the role from Karin von Hippel. |
| 2025 |
Three Seas Initiative
Planned Three Seas Initiative summit in Poland, to be hosted by Andrzej Duda. Details of location and exact date are to be confirmed.
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| March 2025 | Denmark assumes the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for March, maintaining the alphabetical rotation of Council presidencies. |
| March 2025 | European Air Transport Command operates a diverse fleet of 200 aircraft across 7 countries, including notable multi-role and transport aircraft such as the Airbus A400M Atlas, Airbus A330 MRTT, and various military transport planes. |
| 2025 | Expected timeframe for AUKUS Quantum Arrangement (AQuA) to conduct trials and experiments on developing alternative positioning, navigation, and timing solutions. |
| February 2025 | China takes over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for February, continuing the monthly rotational presidency system. |
| January 2025 | Algeria assumes the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for January, rotating through the Council's monthly presidency following alphabetical order. |
| 2024 | Karen Hallberg from Argentina becomes the latest Secretary General of the Pugwash Conferences, succeeding Paolo Cotta-Ramusino. |
| 2024 | Dr. Hussain al-Shahristani, an Iraqi scientist and politician, becomes the latest president of the Pugwash Conferences. |
| 2024 | AUKUS partners announced plans to pursue opportunities in Long Range Fires under AUKUS Pillar II. |
| 2024 | Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made undisclosed 'political commitments' with AUKUS partners regarding naval nuclear technology transfer. |
| December 4 2024 | During parliamentary discussions, Pashinyan stated that Armenia considers itself outside the CSTO and has 'crossed the point of no return'. |
| October 2024 | Brigadier General Rolf von Uslar begins his term as Director |
| September 2024 | Brigadier General Stefan Kowitz completes his term as Director |
| September 2024 | Conducted major exercise 'Casualty Move 2024' (CAMO24), focusing on a joint operation scenario to train national health crisis management and patient flow with enhanced civil-military cooperation. |
| September 2024 | Leaders of Australia, the UK, and the US issue a joint statement exploring opportunities for Japan to improve interoperability of maritime autonomous systems as an initial area of cooperation within AUKUS. |
| August 17 2024 | CSTO countries reported to have neither supported nor condemned the Ukrainian invasion of Russia. |
| June 19 2024 |
Peace through strength
President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan publicly reiterated the 'peace through strength' philosophy, stating that peace must be achieved by preparing for potential conflict, emphasizing the need to avoid war through military readiness.
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| June 12 2024 | Armenia announced it would formally withdraw from the CSTO alliance at an unspecified later date. |
| June 11 2024 | Bucharest Nine meeting in Riga, Latvia, hosted by President Edgars Rinkēvičs |
| May 8 2024 | Armenia stopped making financial contributions to the CSTO. |
| April 7 2024 | Financial Times reports that AUKUS defence ministers will announce talks on expanding Pillar II of the alliance on the following day. |
| April 3 2024 | American Ambassador to Rahm Emanuel suggests Japan is 'about to become the first additional Pillar II partner' in an article published in The Wall Street Journal. |
| February 2024 | Australia agreed to brief New Zealand on AUKUS Pillar 2 developments following a joint bilateral meeting between Australian and New Zealand foreign and defence ministers in Melbourne. |
| February 23 2024 | Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed that Armenia had frozen its participation in the CSTO. |
| February 20 2024 | Commodore Peter Laughton is succeeded by Commodore Andrew Canale, who becomes the incumbent commander. |
| February 12 2024 | The New Zealand Labour Party reversed its previous support for AUKUS Pillar Two, with associate foreign spokesperson Phil Twyford describing it as an 'offensive warfighting alliance against China'. |
| 2023 |
Environmental peacebuilding
Environment and Security, the official peer-reviewed journal of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association, was launched.
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| 2023 | Transported search and rescue equipment in the aftermath of the Turkey–Syria earthquake. |
| 2023 |
Deterrence theory
A research study finds that while nuclear-armed states are less likely to be targeted by non-nuclear states, they are not necessarily less likely to engage in low-level conflicts with other nuclear states.
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| 2023 |
Three Seas Initiative
Czech government removed the controversial Danube-Odra-Labe channel project from its priority list, signaling a shift in approach to the Three Seas Initiative.
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| 2023 |
Three Seas Initiative
The Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund's assets were estimated at €900 million, with the fund collaborating with the Amber Infrastructure Group for capital raising and investment management.
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| December 2023 | New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expressed openness to joining the non-nuclear pillar of the AUKUS agreement during a state visit to Australia. |
| December 2023 | AUKUS governments announced acceleration of quantum technologies development for positioning, navigation, and timing in military capabilities, focusing on improving resilience in GPS-degraded environments and enhancing undersea domain stealth. |
| December 19 2023 | Colonel Andreas Klaus Godau begins his term as Executive Officer (XO) |
| December 18 2023 | Colonel (GS) Jochen Thumser completes his term as Executive Officer (XO) |
| November 2023 | The United States Department of Defense announced a joint AUKUS exercise demonstrating capabilities for protecting underwater infrastructure and utilizing autonomous and semi-autonomous undersea systems. |
| October 2023 | Armenia declined participating in military exercises at the CIS summit and asked for Russian peacekeeping forces to return to Russia. |
| October 2023 | Representatives of participating nations agreed to change the organization's name to 'Multinational Medical Coordination Centre – Europe' (MMCC-E). |
| October 7 2023 |
Environmental peacebuilding
Hamas conducted a massacre of Israelis, which, along with the subsequent Israeli invasion of Gaza, significantly disrupted environmental peacebuilding efforts in the Middle East region.
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| September 2023 | During protests following the Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, demonstrators surrounded the Russian embassy and called for Armenia's withdrawal from the CSTO. |
| September 2023 | Major General Franck Mollard from France takes over as Commander of the EATC, maintaining the established leadership exchange between France and Germany. |
| September 2023 | Jordan joined the IMSC as the thirteenth member. |
| September 6 2023 |
Three Seas Initiative
Three Seas Initiative summit in Bucharest, Romania, hosted by Klaus Iohannis. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva attended. Greece became the 13th member of the initiative, and Moldova became a partner-participant.
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| September 3 2023 | Pashinyan stated it was a strategic mistake to solely rely on Russia for security and that Moscow could not meet Armenia's security needs. |
| July 2023 | US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the 'door is open' for New Zealand to join the AUKUS security partnership. |
| July 1 2023 | The Australian Submarine Agency was established to manage the Australian nuclear submarine program, including personnel posted to the UK and US. |
| June 28 2023 | Presidents of Poland, Lithuania, and Ukraine met in Kyiv to discuss strengthening NATO's Eastern Flank presence and Ukraine's potential Alliance membership. |
| June 6 2023 | Bucharest Nine meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia, hosted by Presidents Zuzana Čaputová, Andrzej Duda, and Klaus Iohannis |
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