Diplomacy & International Relations

Iran Update, October 1, 2025 (Institute for the Study of War)

Iran’s Access to Global Markets: The Iranian regime appears to be trying to mitigate internal economic pressure by taking steps to remove itself from...

Putin Attempts to Shift Nuclear Brinkmanship (Pavel K. Baev – The Jamestown Foundation)

Russian President Vladimir Putin is shifting from overt nuclear brinkmanship to using Russia’s nuclear energy program as a “peaceful” tool of influence, especially through...

Belarus’s Political Prisoner Problem Attracting Renewed International Attention (Dmitry Bolkunets – The Jamestown Foundation)

The first phone call between U.S. President Trump and Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka in August, followed by high-level meetings in Minsk, marked a surprising...

Russia’s War in Ukraine: The Next Chapter (Max Bergmann and Maria Snegovaya – CSIS)

(Max Bergmann and Maria Snegovaya - CSIS - 30 September 2025) Western diplomatic efforts to negotiate a ceasefire with Moscow have repeatedly failed, showing...

Leveraging US-Africa critical mineral opportunities: Strategies for success (Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez, Landry Signé, and Vera Songwe – Brookings)

The U.S. is highly dependent on imports of critical minerals, but existing supply chains are vulnerable, plagued with high geographic concentration, slow mine development,...

How a UN Security Council resolution could help end the war in Gaza (Thomas S. Warrick – Atlantic Council)

Can the United Nations (UN) Security Council play a useful role in ending the war in Gaza? It would be easy to conclude that...

Highlights from the Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics, as US and European leaders reimagine transatlantic cooperation (Katherine Golden and Daniel Hojnacki – Atlantic Council)

A new US-Europe relationship is taking shape. Over the past year, the economic and security environment shared by the transatlantic partners has rapidly changed....

Rohingya plight in Myanmar, a ‘test for humanity’ (UN News)

“Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those stark words, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference on Tuesday, as alarm...

Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors authorise new Gang Suppression Force for Haiti (UN News)

The UN Security Council has backed a resolution authorising the transition of the Kenyan-led support mission for Haiti into a new Gang Suppression Force,...
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