Diplomacy & International Relations

US Keeps Military Option Alive As Iran Talks Near A Critical Test

(Alex Raufoglu - RFE/RL) US Vice President JD Vance has again signaled that the White House is prepared to use force against Iran if...

Mary Kissel (Hudson Institute): Iran’s Nuclear Program Must Remain The Focus

(Alex Raufoglu - RFE/RL) Despite a US-Iran memorandum that opened a 60-day diplomatic window, missile exchanges and maritime threats suggest the negotiations are faltering...

Amnesty says RSF committed ethnic cleansing in Sudan

(AFP/Al Arabiya) The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their attack on al-Fashir city between 2024...

Can Frontier AI Labs Lawfully Agree to Pause?

(Nicholas Felstead - Lawfare) The Anthropic Institute recently published an essay on “recursive self-improvement” (RSI)— the prospect of a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence (AI) system...

The Handover of AI Standard-Setting

(Ignacio Cofone - Just Security) The public bodies that are supposed to set the standards for AI regulation have, for the most part, not...

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Geopolitics of Software Supply Chains

(Hans Nelson - Just Security) When Anthropic announced in April 2026 a limited preview of its Claude Mythos model capable of finding and exploiting...

Will States Address Disability Invisibility in the Crimes Against Humanity Convention?

(Janet Lord, Kate McInnes, Gerard Quinn, Jillian Rafferty, Matthew "Hezzy" Smith, Michael Ashley Stein and Sigurjón Sveinsson - Just Security) Progress on a Draft...

Where Did All These Passports Come From? Russia’s Manipulation of Citizenship as Hybrid Warfare in Ukraine

(Ryan O'Neale - Just Security) Even long before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Kremlin employed various “hybrid” methods to extend its...

Russia, Hamas, and China: Three reasons Turkey shouldn’t get the F-35

(Cameron McMillan, Bradley Bowman and Sinan Ciddi - Breaking Defense) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears eager to impress Washington and Brussels at the...

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