This paper proposes a framework for understanding cognitive resilience as a strategic security domain. It argues that contemporary influence operations target cognition directly, and that the defense of open societies requires extending the security perimeter inward ranging from physical territory and digital infrastructure to the cognitive substrate on which both ultimately depend.

Transparency deficits create structural vulnerabilities enabling corruption to operate as a force multiplier for national security threats. In this context, information asymmetries, weak oversight mechanisms, and inadequate accountability frameworks establish permissive environments where corrupt actors exploiting institutional blind spots.

Geopolitics, Strategic Intelligence, and the Emerging Security Architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean. This working paper examines Cyprus’s pivotal role in Eastern Mediterranean security dynamics, analysing the intersection of unresolved territorial disputes, intensifying energy geopolitics, strategic alliance shifts, and the evolving landscape of intelligence cooperation and hybrid threats.

Cognitive Warfare and the Future of European Security. Wars used to begin at borders.