ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...
Peacemaking has shifted toward military capacity at the expense of universalism, but peace cannot be reduced to the absence ...
The South China Sea dispute is a complex and ongoing struggle to assert sovereignty over a strategic maritime region in Southeast Asia, involving China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, ...
The significance of Iran’s BRICS bank bid is not in what it provides Tehran economically, but what it signals for the future of Iranian politics.
Southeast Asian leaders are courting BRICS. The risk isn't the engagement itself but what it costs: the ambiguity that made ASEAN useful.
Ottawa's real sovereignty test isn't how many F-35s it keeps — it's what ends up in the GlobalEye and Gripen assembly contracts.
Japan has turned JS Kaga into an F-35B carrier and is converting Izumo. What the change does for deterrence, the US alliance, ...
Stablecoins, Monero payments, and state-backed CBDCs are tools of statecraft. How tech firms became players in the political economy of digital money.
China runs joint river commissions with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia but offers the Mekong nothing binding. How Bangkok can change Beijing’s incentives.
Houthis seize Mocha and Perim, tightening the Bab al-Mandab as Saudi oil reroutes; Canada copies Ukraine's drone playbook; ...
The Hormuz crisis sent European negotiators back to Baku. What they found was a partner of real strategic value and marginal volume: Azerbaijan still supplies under 4 percent of the EU's gas.
Putin’s visit to Iturup underscores how fundamentally Japan–Russia relations have changed since the outbreak of the war in ...