Sebastian Maier

Quo vadis, “Party of God”? The Regional Entanglement of the Lebanese Hezbollah

A Slippery Slope between Doctrinal Resistance against Israel and Strategic Adaptation in Syria

While the Lebanese Hezbollah’s raison d’être ever since its inception in the early ’80s has been the mantra of unwavering resistance against th...

Sometimes Peculiar, Mostly Pragmatic

Russian-Israeli Intersections in the Contemporary Middle East

The Russian-Israeli intersections in the Middle East sway sometime from being distinctly pragmatic to peculiar arenas when it comes to the ongoing Syr...

Recent Developments of US and Turkish Involvement in the Syrian Conflict

Recently, the armed conflict in Syria has witnessed an increasing political, military, and operational role of two of the conflict’s major stakehold...

Deciphering Iran’s Cyber Activities

This research paper explores the topical implications of the new realities and calculations surrounding Iran’s rapidly-evolving cyber ecosystem. The...

Warfare by Another Name: Russian Computer Hacking against the United States and the West

Russia has developed one of the world’s most extensive cyberwarfare capabilities and views those capabilities as a means to advance its strategic ob...

A New US National Security Team Confronts Difficult Choices with Iran and North Korea

US President Donald Trump came to office having inherited a pair of seemingly intractable problems in regard to Iran and North Korea. The two countrie...

Germany’s Foreign and Security Policy in Syria and Iraq, 2011-2016

This analysis strives to factually present the evolution of Germany’s foreign and security policy vis-à-vis the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republ...

Invasive Computing

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Monitoring of In-hospital Cardiac Arrest Events with the Focus on Automated External Defibrillators - a Retrospective Observational Study

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