Diplomacy & International Relations

Resilience under fire: how US’s WWII airfield upgrades back Taiwan

(Rowan Allport - ASPI The Strategist) In World War II, the United States built a western Pacific airfield here, another there, and more elsewhere,...

No, Trump’s tariff rise doesn’t damage the Australian–US alliance

(John Coyne and Justin Bassi - ASPI The Strategist) Amid alarm stemming from President Donald Trump’s on-and-off-again tariff rise this week, let’s not lose...

Australia–Indonesia treaty a step in the right direction but gaps remain

(Rodon Pedrason - ASPI The Strategist) On 6 February, Indonesia and Australia signed the Australia-Indonesia Treaty on Common Security, also known as the Treaty...

Middle Powers Must Win the AI Deployment Race

(Broderick McDonald, Connor Attridge and Alexandra MacEachern - RUSI) The AI Race is often framed as a contest over which countries – primarily the...

Russia, Navalny and the Uses of Poison in State-Sponsored Assassinations

(Brett Edwards and Luca Trenta - RUSI) ‘We have been pursuing the truth on this since Alexei died in prison.’ In February 2026, almost...

Worlds In brief (25/26 February 2026)

(Axios) The Pentagon asked two major defense contractors on Wednesday to provide an assessment of their reliance on Anthropic's AI model, Claude — a...

Iran Update, February 25, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) Planning for a Post-Iranian Regime Reality: A newly established coalition of anti-regime Kurdish organizations outlined its vision for administering...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) ISW has not observed evidence of Ukrainian forces operating within Pokrovsk since late January 2025, indicating that Russian forces...

­Korean Peninsula Update, February 25, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) North Korean politics: The WPK opened the 9th Party Congress with a focus on economic development and external security....

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