Diplomacy & International Relations

Plan to Reoccupy Gaza Further Isolates Israel (The Soufan Center)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposal to reoccupy all of the Gaza Strip has caused tensions with his defense establishment and with his allies...

After New Tariffs, Trust Between the United States and India Is Running Low (Richard M. Rossow – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

A U.S.-India trade agreement is about more than commerce. It is about security. In an effort to push India to cross unreasonable thresholds on...

Damage to Iran’s Nuclear Program—Can It Rebuild? (Joseph Rodgers, Heather Williams, and Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. – Center for Strategic & International Studies)

In the immediate aftermath of the U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 22, “Operation Midnight Hammer,” policymakers and experts launched into a...

Israel Risks Overplaying Its Hand in Gaza and the Middle East (Steven A. Cook – Council on Foreign Relations)

From the very beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip that started with Hamas’s killing spree on October 7, 2023, there has been...

Europe’s play to keep Trump happy cannot come at the expense of a longer-term strategy (Torrey Taussig and Josh Lipsky – Atlantic Council)

Finalized in Scotland on July 27, the preliminary trade deal between the United States and the European Union (EU) stands out as one of...

Battle of the currencies: The dollar versus digital (Stephen Grenville – Lowy The Interpreter)

The US dollar’s role as pre-eminent global currency is under pressure. Enthusiasts of BRICS (the grouping of economies that includes Brazil, Russia, India, China...

Australia risks wasting its solar superpower status (Clare Caldwell – Lowy The Interpreter)

As statistics go, this is a good one: Australia could generate enough electricity to satisfy the needs of the entire world by covering just...

Fibre-optic drones reshape Ukraine’s technological war (David Kirichenko – Lowy The Interpreter)

Fibre-optic drones have taken a more central role on the battlefields in Ukraine. Frontline soldiers describe the conflict as a war of drones and...

India, the US and the Quad: managing tensions to meet the China challenge (Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan – ASPI The Strategist)

India’s continued purchase of weapons and energy from Russia is raising difficulties in its relationship with the United States that are extending across the...

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