The plateauing of Russia’s military strategy in Ukraine
Russia’s battlefield strategy in Ukraine has plateaued and, if nothing radically changes, Russia cannot expect any significant progress on the battlefield in 2026.
Robots take the risk: Ukraine’s UGV ecosystem and what Europe should learn from it
Ukraine has systematically removed humans from roles that don’t require human judgment, letting machines absorb the danger soldiers would otherwise face. What UGVs can and can’t do, and what lessons European institutions can draw from Ukraine’s experience.
The day after: Six post-war challenges for Ukraine
A ceasefire is nowhere in sight. Putin sees no interest in ending his war. Even so, the EU should start preparing for the many post-war challenges Ukraine will face.
Gerald Knaus
Gerald Knaus (Austria) is the European Stability Initiative’s (ESI) founding chairman. In 2021, he received the Karl Carstens Award by the German Federal Academy for Security Policy. In 2020, he published the award-winning SPIEGEL bestseller “Welche Grenzen brauchen wir?” (“What Borders Do We Need?”) and in 2011, he wrote the book “Can Intervention Work?” with the British writer and politician Rory Stewart.
He is a founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was for five years an Associate Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. After studying in Oxford, Brussels, and Bologna, he taught university economics in Ukraine and spent ten years working for NGOs and international organisations in Bulgaria, Bosnia and Kosovo and has published extensively on migration, the rule of law in Europe and refugee issues, was well as on corruption.
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