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Although recent developments pose challenges to the future of the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) and the larger non-proliferation and disarmament efforts in the Middle East, they also bring into focus the important role of the other parties to that agreement.
After 10 years of war in Syria, sanctions have yet to achieve their purpose: a change in the behaviour of the Syrian establishment.
The future for Syria in 2021 looks bleak from the Russian perspective. Though the conflict entered a low-intensity phase of armed confrontations that characterised 2020 will likely continue in 2021.
Colonel (GS) Laurent Currit, Head of Defence and Diplomacy at the GCSP interviews Dr Jean-Marc Rickli, Head of Global and Emerging Risks at the GCSP as he provides a “Perspective on Global and Emerging Risk.”
In Burundi the rise of authoritarianism during the post-civil war period fuelled endless political tensions that resulted in intermittent violent but low-intensity conflicts.
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This was originally published in December 2020 by Korea National Defense University.
‘No-first-use’ is a policy that can be adopted by a nuclear armed (or allied) state to never initiate a nuclear exchange by being the first to use nuclear weapons. China and India have declared such policies.