by Hanna Ojanen, Research Director, Tampere University & inRESPONSE Researcher Finland’s newly elected President Alexander Stubb recently paid his first state visit to Stockholm, as per tradition for Finnish presidents. This time a lot has changed: now the two countries are in NATO. Understandably, NATO was one of the central topics during the visit. In his…
by Francesca Leso, PhD Candidate at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & inRESPONSE Researcher When Russia invaded Ukraine at the dawn of February 24, 2022, one of the Kremlin’s main strategic goals was to secure Ukraine’s notorious ‘neutrality status’. Two years into the war, it would appear that Russia has achieved exactly the opposite. Public support…
by Elena Simanschi, PhD Candidate at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona & inRESPONSE Researcher Moldova’s security landscape underwent a drastic transformation following Russia’s full-scale military aggression against its neighbor Ukraine in February 2022, resulting in 850,000 Ukrainian refugees crossing the border from 24 February 2022 to July 2023. Additionally, missile and drone incidents on Moldovan land…