Diplomacy & International Relations

The New October 7 Tribunal and the Legitimacy Challenge of Atrocity Adjudication

(Ya'ara Mordecai - Just Security) The Israeli Knesset’s newly enacted law establishing a special tribunal for the perpetrators of the October 7 attack rests...

AI ‘Regulation’ in the Chokepoint State

(J. Benton Heath - Just Security) President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence is being treated as a “shift” in the administration’s...

Moscow Tells Baltics NATO Will Not Come to Their Rescue

(Paul Globe - The Jamestown Foundation) Whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will launch an attack on the Baltic countries remains uncertain. Moscow is now...

Ukrainian Mid-Range Drones Target Russian Logistics

(Yuri Lapaiev - The Jamestown Foundation) On May 27, Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced the start of a “logistical lockdown” for the Russian...

Trump’s Revamped Food for Peace Bypasses the Countries Closest to Famine

(Sam Vigersky - Council on Foreign Relations) Help wanted: the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking a contract quote for an instruction manual...

What Trump’s National Security AI Memo Gets Right—and Leaves Unresolved

(Council on Foreign Relations) President Donald Trump signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 11 (NSPM-11) on June 5, directing U.S. national security agencies to accelerate...

Four questions (and expert answers) about Armenia’s elections and what to expect next

(Atlantic Council) In the end, Armenians went with the heart. Early on Monday morning, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory in his country’s...

US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: It will take ‘many months’ to get back to normal after this energy crisis

(Katherine Golden - Atlantic Council) The United States and Iran still haven’t agreed to a deal that reopens the Strait of Hormuz. But according...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 9, 2026

(Institute for the Study of War) The Kremlin is seeking to delegitimize the results of Armenia’s June 8 parliamentary elections, in which Armenian Prime...

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