Diplomacy & International Relations

Iran Update, September 2, 2025 (Ben Rezaei, Nidal Morrison, Carolyn Moorman, Ben Schmida, Katherine Wells, Adham Fattah, Ria Reddy and Brian Carter – Institute...

Iran: Iran continues to cooperate with US adversaries to advance its nuclear and missile program. An unspecified senior security source told a UK-based website,...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 2, 2025 (Anna Harvey, Christina Harward, Angelica Evans, Justin Young, Olivia Gibson, and Frederick W. Kagan – Institute for...

Russian President Vladimir Putin leveraged a meeting with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to pretend to offer marginal concessions to US demands while continuing...

The Experience of Time and Tyranny Under the Taliban in Afghanistan (Niamatullah Ibrahimi – Just Security)

Four years have passed since the Taliban returned to power, ending two decades of international efforts in Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021. While the...

America’s Climate Diplomacy Challenge and the Path to Rebuilding Credibility (Catherine Goldberg and Milan Vivanco – Just Security)

No one was surprised when the United States withdrew from the Paris Agreement for a second time earlier this year. What shocked the international...

Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit: Guterres calls for strengthening multilateralism (UN News)

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for strengthening multilateralism – and appealed for peace in Gaza, Ukraine and beyond – in remarks to the Shanghai...

Guterres condemns detention of more UN staff in Yemen (UN News)

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the arbitrary detention of at least 11 staff members in Yemen on Sunday by the de facto...

Aid effort underway after Afghanistan quake ‘wipes out’ villages (UN News)

After a magnitude six earthquake struck remote areas of eastern Afghanistan overnight reportedly killing at least 800 people and wiping out villages, UN chief...

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 1, 2025 (Jessica Sobieski, Christina Harward, Jennie Olmsted, Justin Young, Olivia Gibson, and George Barros – Institute for the...

Kremlin officials continue to deny White House statements about the prospect of a bilateral Ukrainian-Russian or trilateral US-Ukrainian-Russian meeting in the near future. Russian President...

Iran Update, September 1, 2025 (Katherine Wells, Adham Fattah, Ria Reddy, Johanna Moore, and Annika Ganzeveld – Institute for the Study of War)

Iran: Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani appointed Ali Bagheri Kani as the SNSC deputy for international affairs on August 29. Larijani...

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