Emerging Risks

Research Fellow at Hudson Institute's Kleptocracy Initiative in Washington, DC.

Kleptocracy, or “rule by thieves,” has for too long been disregarded from mainstream foreign policy discussions. It is often overlooked as a perip...

archived 27 Feb 2022 23:01:50 UTC

Putin’s end goal isn’t Ukraine but western civilization – the hatred for which he lapped up in the black milk he drank from the KGB’s teat

Putin's aggressive, Machiavellian tactics are a fresh reminder that unstable dictators with vast powers can be reckless.

The CDC said the avian flu viruses don't typically infect humans.

Order given as Zelenskiy says Urkaine delegation would meet Russian officials at Belarus border

Russia will likely continue to improve the speed, stealth, and precision of its tactical nuclear weapons in the 2020s.

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A decision by Western allies on Saturday to block "selected" Russian banks from the SWIFT payments system will inflict a crippling economic blow, but also cause much pain to their own companies and banks. And the allies still have room to do more.

A senior Russian official says that Moscow may respond to Western sanctions by opting out of the last nuclear arms deal with the U.S., cutting diplomatic ties with Western nations and freezing their assets

The secretary of state said he is concerned about the safety of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other government officials still in the country.

The U.S. power grid is a key potential target for a Russian cyberattack as tensions increase over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. That could bring an escalation from the Biden administration and NATO.

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A Russia in control of Ukraine and Belarus would change the security architecture of Europe. Can the alliance respond effectively?

A former Bush administration national security adviser on Thursday raised concern for people living in the Baltic States as Russian forces move into Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the 13 who were killed will be bestowed with the title “Hero of Ukraine,” the highest honorific he can award.

MOSCOW - Russia on Thursday presented the US with a new document on "security guarantees", calling for a new "security equation&q...

Former top NATO commander has warned a nuclear war with Russia is “very real” as the situation in Ukraine is the worse case scenario ...

Analysis: a new pact will be worse for Israel than the old one and Iran’s influence in the region has grown in recent years

As tensions grow between Russia and Ukraine, the threat of nuclear war is ‘closer now than at any time since the 1970s’

Moscow announced Friday it would begin massive nuclear drills over the weekend that will entail practice launches of its intercontinental ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.

archived 25 Feb 2022 04:25:05 UTC

Russian president warns that any attempt to interfere in Ukraine conflict will provoke a response ‘never seen in history’

A Chinese warship’s use of a laser on an Australiansurveillance plane was no accident but purposeful aggression. Just after lunchtime Thursday 17 February, China for the first time undertook gre

Many are comparing the events unfolding in Ukraine with those at Munich 84 years ago. Indeed, if history isn’t quite repeating, it’s certainly rhyming. Russian President Vladimir Putin is

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — It has been a long time since the threat of using nuclear weapons has been brandished so openly by a world leader, but Vladimir Putin has just done it, warning in a speech that he has the weapons available if anyone dares to use military means to try to stop Russia's takeover of Ukraine.

10:19 "What's dangerous right now, and very few people realize, is how close the US and Russia are to war, an actual shooting war." https://www.youtube.co...

The outcome of the broader war Vladimir Putin has launched in Ukraine on February 24 is far from clear; but one thing is obvious: every victory the Kremlin leader may achieve on the ground sets the stage for the collapse not only of his new empire but of the Russian Federation as well (see EDM, February 8). The reason for …