Diplomacy & International Relations

Making Sure Damascus Learns the Right Lessons from the Suwayda Clashes (Andrew J. Tabler – Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Sparked by a Bedouin ambush against a Druze vegetable seller, major armed clashes broke out in Syria’s southern Suwayda province on July 13. Since...

Iran Turns to Turkey and Azerbaijan Amid Energy Shortages (Umud Shokri – Stimson Center)

Turkey and Azerbaijan are helping to meet growing industrial demands for energy and minerals in Iran. Contending with seven percent annual growth in electricity...

The fallacy of Vietnam’s bamboo diplomacy (Jackson Lopez – The Interpreter)

Vietnam’s tensile nonalignment is unsustainable. Even after a widely vaunted trade deal with the United States this month, the sharp contradictions that mire Vietnamese...

AUKUS will be worth the work. China’s alarm shows why Trump should get onboard (Frank Rose – The Interpreter)

China is currently undertaking the largest military expansion in its modern history. According to a recent US Intelligence Community assessment, Beijing’s objective is to...

UN development summit shows who’s really fanning the flames (Melissa Conley Tyler – The Interpreter)

The UN International Conference on Financing for Development is a big deal. It is held only once a decade, on a topic that the...

Russia’s Finances Beyond War – Supporting the Occupied Regions (Emily Ferris – RUSI)

President Trump’s most recent threat – to slap Russia’s economic trade partners with prohibitive tariffs in a bid to push through war negotiations with...

The Time-Crunch for CyberEM Command’s Challenges (Robert Tollast – RUSI)

The forthcoming UK Cyber and Electromagnetic Command (CyberEM) outlined in the Strategic Defence Review could be a much-needed pillar of modernisation. It follows a...

Like It or Not, Democratic Societies Need Clearly Defined Adversaries (Daniel Hegedüs, Goran Buldioski – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Over the past decade, the “boiling frog” has been a popular metaphor for the democratic decline in Western societies. While this gradual decline has...

Next-Generation Perspectives on Taiwan (Michal Bokša, Philipp Buschmann, Johanna M. Costigan, Natalie Ivanov, Thomas König, Jacob Kostrzewski, Ben Levine, Shuxian Luo, Julia Mykhailiuk, Kayla...

In an increasingly fractured world where authoritarianism is gaining ground, Taiwan stands as one of the strongest and most resilient democracies. Taiwan placed first...
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