Businesses and governments targeted by cyber attacks, subversion and espionage

China’s maritime militias are running a risk of blurring the line between fishing boats and naval forces. Therefore, accurate assessments under international maritime law are of utmost importance to future disputes

Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 without firing a single shot, former Soviet States in the area – particularly the Baltic countries – have been increasingly worried by the idea they could be ‘the next’ target of an hybrid war operated from Moscow with some form of occupation as their objective. At the same time, the Kremlin and several Russian experts have been underlining the danger of an externally-directed non-linear war aimed at weakening Russia’s sovereignty and eventually staging a regime change: the spectre of a ‘coloured revolution’ orchestrated by the West has been for years a postulate of actions taken by the Russian authorities to discourage public mobilization and ultimately repressing protests. Both theories can be sustained or denied, in the framework of a largely hypothetical and undefined picture where many assumptions are taken for granted and few elements can be concretely verified.

A well-governed society is a resilient society.