Diplomacy & International Relations

Brazil’s BRICS agenda may be hard to accomplish after the Iran–Israel war (Christopher Sabatini – Chatham House)

On 6-7 July the founding BRICS member countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will convene in Rio de Janeiro, joined by...

Back-to-back BRICS and Quad meetings highlight India’s increasingly difficult balancing act (Chietigj Bajpaee – Chatham House)

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar attended the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) foreign ministers’ meeting in Washington on 1 July, just days before Prime...

One year hard Labour: Why is the UK so difficult to govern? (Chatham House)

After a crisis week for Britain’s ruling Labour Party, host Bronwen Maddox and Chatham House’s Olivia Sullivan are joined by economist Professor Stephen Millard...

Iran on Day 13: Gauging Regime Choices and Public Attitudes After the War (Holly Dagres, Roya Boroumand, Norman Roule – Washington Institute for Near...

Two human rights experts discuss the chances that Iran’s domestic crackdown will escalate under the ceasefire, while a former CIA manager explains why the...

Here’s How State Department Cuts Would Impede U.S. Policy in the Middle East (Ben Fishman, Elizabeth Surman – Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

At a time when the Middle East needs additional help managing the fallout from the war with Iran, the extreme State Department budget cuts...

Canada’s Hikvision ban can inspire wider collective action (Justin Bassi and James Corera – The Strategist)

Canada has just made a great step forward in minimising the security risk from China. Now Australia should step forward and propose to work...

For Quad to be taken seriously, it must formalise and expand (Gabriel Otis – The Strategist)

The Quad must formalise through a permanent secretariat and expand to include South Korea and New Zealand to remain relevant to Indo-Pacific security. Now...

Taiwan, South Korea and Japan also need to spend 5 percent on defence (Ju Hyung Kim – The Strategist)

There’s no shortage of measures that the United States’ major East Asian friends could spend an increased defence budget on. NATO allies of the...

Despite it all, China dominates Australian trade—again (David Uren – The Strategist)

China has reasserted its dominance over Australia’s export markets, taking a record of almost 1 billion tonnes of mineral resources and agricultural commodities last...

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