Diplomacy & International Relations

Nepal’s Gen Z Uprising: A New Test for India–China Dynamics (Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Subhangi Mukherjee – Observer Research Foundation)

In September 2025, Nepal witnessed one of the deadliest political uprisings in its modern political history—a youth-led anti-corruption movement without any party banners or...

Shared Aspirations, Diverse Priorities: BIMSTEC Perspectives on Connectivity (Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury – Observer Research Foundation)

As an emerging zone of convergence between South and Southeast Asia, the Bay of Bengal has gained strategic and economic prominence within the broader...

Egypt’s foreign policy will remain too little, too late in 2026 (Ahmed Aboudouh – Chatham House)

In the past two years, Egypt has played an active role on several fronts. It has mediated talks over Gaza and Iran’s nuclear programme,...

An imminent Indian ballistic missile test highlights escalation risks in the Indian Ocean (Nitya Labh – Chatham House)

In early December, India issued four Notices to Airmen (NOTAMs) warning of a long-range missile test it would conduct over the Indian Ocean. The...

Ukraine’s Potential Role in NATO’s Arctic Defense (David Kirichenko – The Arctic Institute)

Cheap unmanned systems have become a defining feature of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Kyiv has not only built a defensive “drone wall” to hold back...

Reframing cyber attribution (Virpratap Vikram Singh – IISS)

In the last few years there has been an increase in public attribution of cyber incidents, where a government utilises a combination of technical...

Supply-chain resilience: the foundation of economic security (Maria Shagina – IISS)

The principle that economic security is national security is now widely accepted among Western policymakers. What is only just beginning to sink in, however,...

The US pivot on regulating AI diffusion (IISS)

On 8 December 2025, United States President Donald Trump announced a one-year waiver of export restrictions on Nvidia’s H200 chips, which are used in...

Iran Update, December 19, 2025 (Institute for the Study of War)

US Airstrikes in Syria: The United States struck dozens of ISIS-affiliated targets in Syria on December 19 in direct response to the ISIS-affiliated killing...

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