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The Politics of a Pandemic

The lessons learned from COVID-19 are not only about virology. The pandemic has intensified the dilemma between human and material values in national politics and reiterated the ibtter contestation over the world order. In this paper, Mika Kerttunen, Eneken Tikk,, and Helen Eenmaa discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on politics and policymaking, as well as data movement, public services, and the role that the pandemic played in shaping (inter)national attitudes, especially among small states.

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Hand and Glove: How Authoritarian Cyber Operations Leverage Non-state Capabilities

26 June 2025
In this article, Jakob Bund examines how authoritarian states like Russia, China, and North Korea increasingly harness non-state cyber actors to expand their capabilities, blur attribution, and complicate global responses. He argues that this growing fusion of state and criminal or contractor activity demands integrated threat assessments and response tools that can operate independently of political attribution.

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