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5) These are new challenges for Norway’s “total defence” and societal security. Drone technology facilitates hybrid warfare activities and bring foreign conflicts close to home; it causes psychological distress in the population, and this is one of the intentions of the ones using hybrid warfare

4) It is impossible to dissociate yesterday's activities from developments in Poland and in the Baltic countries.We see that drone's attributes (stealth, difficulty of detection, remoteness) make them particularly apt for the battlefield, but also for hybrid warfare below the threshold of war.

... Russian citizens being arrested at Norwegian border crossing sites and airports in possession of drones and drone-collected data on their way back to Russia.

3) Following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, many drone-related incidents took place in Norway: drone sightings outside oil platforms and energy installations, drone incursions in the vicinity of airports leading to the temporary closure of some of them, and...

RegulAIR: The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces – Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Led by Bruno Oliveira Martins.

2) As our team at PRIO's RegulAIR project has argued time and again over many years, our research shows that Norway’s drone vulnerabilities have been known for a long time, and Russia’s threat is just making them more dangerous and more explicit. www.prio.org/projects/1902

1) In Norway, investigations the Norwegian Police Service (PST) and the Norwegian Criminal Investigation Department (Kripos). Currently there's no clear identification of where the drones came from or who operated them, but authorities "are taking this very seriously" (Min of Justice dixit)

Airports in Copenhagen and Oslo were closed due to several drone sightings. In Denmark, drones seem to have such a large size that they are inconsistent with a scenario of reckless behaviour by hobby drone users. Some take-aways:

Article title: The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War

Effects of the Ukraine War, including the 2025 EU White Paper on European Defence, have transformed the political economy of European defence production are examined in a new @jei-publication.bsky.social article
written with @brunoomartins.bsky.social and
@jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social

The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War In this article, we develop a conceptualisation of the relationship between European institutions, governments and defence industries as a European Iron Network. This network is characterized by a ...

New article today in @jei-publication.bsky.social for @brunoomartins.bsky.social , @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social and I - "The European Iron Network: the remaking of the political economy of European defence production following the Ukraine War" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yes, unfortunately drone-wise it's always good timing because there's always something going on. I've been covering the issue for 13 years, there's always something to look into. But of course its salience is much bigger now.

Drones na guerra da Ucrânia x Rússia - Fantástico hoje Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Estive na edição de ontem do programa Fantástico, da TV Globo no Brasil, com uma participação sobre a evolução tecnológica em termos de drones e IA ao longo dos últimos 3 anos de guerra na Ucrânia. A peça chama-se "Mentes Digitais" e aborda o uso de drones e IA na guerra.
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Friends and colleagues have been asking how to support me and my Politics colleagues caught up in this. You could sign this:
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European Data Protection Officer, and some fundamental rights NGOs as raising several challenges. Having CSOs and citizens excluded from the processes that create interoperability further reinforces these challenges.

These findings largely apply beyond the empirical case of interoperability - in other words, CSOs and citizens have largely been side-lined in R&D processes that develop security "solutions" in the EU. Interoperability has been described by the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency, the (...)

Outside the social making of interoperability: Problematizing the absence of civil society in border security R&D programmes - Clemens Binder, Bruno Oliveira Martins, Lise Endregard Hemat, 2025 Big data-based governance requires both compatible modes of computing data and interoperable databases. While interoperability is often portrayed as a logical i...

New article! In this piece co-auth. with Clemens Binder and Lise Endregard Hemat, we find that civil society has largely remained side-lined in the making of interoperability of EU internal security databases – not as mere unintended consequence, but by design.

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Still, there are plenty of challenges. In future warfare, drones will move in swarms that can be very difficult to counter. Drone attack capabilities are evolving faster than their countermeasures, and technological development is very rapid. In this case and in others, full security does not exist.

I mentioned that current technology makes it possible, for example, to protect individual buildings or a specific area from drone threats, but NATO's eastern border is very long. I said it is realistic that some parts of the eastern border will be effectively protected from drone attacks.

I was interviewed by Kauppalehti, Finland's financial newspaper, to comment on some of NATO member states' plans to build a "drone wall" to protect Europe's eastern flank. Some tech companies claim this can be done within one year. I said this production time to be "too optimistic". (cont)

IDN Brief | European Deterrence

NEW PUBLICATION: My PRIO colleagues @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social and Pavel Baev and I have just published a IDN Brief deadling with current trends and challenges regarding European Deterrence, which is going through a profound transformation.
www.idn.gov.pt/pt/publicaco...

After America: Can Europe Defend Itself? PRIO's Peace in a Pod · Episode

I highlighted research findings from work carried out together with colleagues @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social, @jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social and Raluca Csernatoni @carnegieeurope.bsky.social. Links available for Youtube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify. tinyurl.com/bdcmfdzp

After America: Can Europe Defend Itself? Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

A pleaseure to discuss European rearmament at the latest episode of PRIO's Peace in a Pod. I was joined by Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and former foreign policy adviser to President George W. Bush.
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Inteligência Artificial e o futuro da guerra: estamos preparados para avaliar os problemas éticos que a tecnologia pode trazer? O Mundo a Seus Pés · Episode

For the Portuguese speakers here: dei uma longa entrevista para "O Mundo a Seus Pés", podcast do @jornalexpresso.bsky.social. 40 min de defesa europeia, guerra híbrida, tecnologia, rearmamento, Comunidade Europeia de Defesa (quem se lembra?…), proliferação nuclear, democracia.
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New blogpost: European Defence Spending should be better aligned by @brunoomartins.bsky.social @jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social & @nicholasmarsh.bsky.social
seceur.ideasoneurope.eu/2024/02/16/e...

Europa pumper milliarder inn i forsvarsbudsjettene. Det betyr ikke nødvendigvis et bedre forsvar. Nå er det viktig å tenke i fellesskap og å tenke langsiktig.

@nicholasmarsh.bsky.social, @jocelynmawdsley.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed in today's Aftenposten dealing with European defence industrial investments. For reasons that we explain in detail, more money invested does not necessarily translate into more capacity. tinyurl.com/mrv2kwzy

RegulAIR: The integration of drones in the Norwegian and European Airspaces – Peace Research Insti... Led by Bruno Oliveira Martins.

In 2023 we also received Fabio Scarpello as a visiting fellow at PRIO, participated in multiple academic and policy conferences, engaged with many societal actors and practioners, and organised a scenario workshop with international experts. Now, looking forward to 2024! www.prio.org/projects/1902

Jusspodden | Podspace Listen to Jusspodden on Podspace

In an episode of the Jusspoden podcast, Kristin B. Sandvik discusses the legal and societal context in which multiple drone-related arrests have taken place in Norway since the beginning of the war in Ukraine
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Keeping Tech Ethics Grounded: A Discussion with Stephanie Hare In this discussion with Senior Fellow Arthur Holland Michel, researcher and author Stephanie Hare describes the fundamental dimensions of technology ethics.

In the second episode of this podcast series, Arthur Holland Michel hosted Stephanie Hare for a conversation on technology ethics. www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/podcas...

Tales from the Hype Beat: A Discussion with AI Reporter Will Knight In this discussion with Senior Fellow Arthur Holland Michel, Wired senior writer Will Knight reflects on a busy decade of reporting on artificial intelligence.

In a joint PRIO - Carnegie Council initiative, RegulAIR team member Arthur Holland Michel hosted WIRED’s Will Knight for a great conversation on AI and the governance of emerging technology.
www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/podcas...

Manchester University Press - Humanitarian extractivism Humanitarian extractivism - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Humanitarian extractivism by Kristin Bergtora Sandvik.

The early humanitarian drone airspace: flying high and failing fast", part of Kristin B. Sandvik's new Manchester University Press book "Humanitarian extractivism:
The digital transformation of aid", here
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173355/

"Conflicting visions around technology integration: A look at recent EU drone policies", in Contemporary European Politics, by Samar Nawaz, analysing inconsistency in different EU policies on AI and drones, and how it challenges EU's institutional coherence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...