Diplomacy & International Relations

Migrant deaths in Asia hit record high in 2024, UN data reveals (UN News)

The year 2024 marked the deadliest on record for migrants in Asia, with at least 2,514 lives lost along the region’s perilous migration routes,...

‘Fragility and hope’ mark new era in Syria amid ongoing violence and aid struggles (UN News)

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen briefed the Security Council on Tuesday, pointing to the devastating violence on the coast earlier this month,...

Inside the Fourth EU Cyber Sanctions Package (Stefan Soesanto, Lawfare)

On Jan. 27, the European Council imposed the EU’s fourth cyber sanctions package, which encompassed restrictive measures against three officers working for Unit 29155...

Conflict minerals and wars over natural resources (Emma Saunders, Lisa Toremark – Chatham House)

Conflict minerals are minerals that are high in demand, which makes them valuable to conflict actors to extract and sell to fund armed groups....

Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war (UN News)

In Yemen, a decade of conflict has proved catastrophic for the country’s children living under the threat of airstrikes and staggeringly high malnutrition rates,...

Trump Threatens Iran to Secure New Talks (The Soufan Center)

Trump is employing military action against Iran’s allies, and threatening strikes on Iran itself, to induce Iranian leaders to agree to new talks on...

Critical Raw Materials and European Defence (IISS)

Security of supply issues are of growing concern for defence policymakers. This relates to components, platforms and munitions, but also to the raw materials...

China’s shadow fleet threatens Indo-Pacific communications (Mercedes Page, The Strategist)

China is using increasingly sophisticated grey-zone tactics against subsea cables in the waters around Taiwan, using a shadow-fleet playbook that could be expanded across...

How the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Became a Weapon for Moscow and Washington (Ksenia Luchenko, Carnegie Russia Eurasia)

This spring, a new Ukrainian law—“On the protection of the constitutional order in the activities of religious organizations”—comes into force. One of its goals...

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