Von der Leyen proposed Canada as the EU's first associate member. The status has no legal basis, and all three routes to creating one carry costs.

In March, Norway’s defense minister Tore O. Sandvik made an unusually confident claim that “we don’t lose those submarines,” when describing NATO’s ability to track Russian submarines leaving the Kola ...

For a long time, Pakistan has referred to itself as a country centered between regions. This idea appears frequently in diplomatic speeches, policy papers, and discussions of regional connectivity.

ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...

Rassvet, Russia’s replacement for the Starlink service SpaceX cut off, was reported failing in orbit. Its second batch was actually ahead of its first at the same age: 365.1 km against 313.5 km.

Peacemaking has shifted toward military capacity at the expense of universalism, but peace cannot be reduced to the absence ...

Japan has turned JS Kaga into an F-35B carrier and is converting Izumo. What the change does for deterrence, the US alliance, ...

China runs joint river commissions with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia but offers the Mekong nothing binding. How Bangkok can change Beijing’s incentives.