Diplomacy & International Relations

Experts react: What’s next for US-Turkey ties after Erdoğan’s White House visit? (Atlantic Council)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with US President Donald Trump on Thursday, marking the Turkish leader’s first White House visit in six years....

Israel’s attack on Qatar shows why it’s time for a Gulf defence union (Bilal Y. Saab – Chatham House)

Israel’s 9 September attack on Qatar shows why its neighbour, Saudi Arabia, has been pushing for a formal defence pact with the US in...

Trump’s UK visit sealed deals, but at what cost? (Bronwen Maddox, Laurel Rapp – Chatham House)

President Donald Trump brought AI and tech CEOs on his second state visit for a deal pledging £31 billion in investment for the UK. Independent...

Trump, Xi, and the Making of a Presidential Phone Call (Michael Froman – Council on Foreign Relations)

President Donald Trump called Chinese President Xi Jinping directly for the second time this year. To break down what goes into a presidential call,...

Jets Over Estonia Are Putin’s Latest Check of U.S. and NATO Resolve (Max Boot – Council on Foreign Relations)

Western experts were still debating whether the incursion of at least nineteen Russian drones into Polish airspace last week was accidental or deliberate when...

Are Arab nations going to impose real costs on Israel? (Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley – Atlantic Council)

For nearly two years since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack, the biggest question facing the Middle East has been: What combination of circumstances,...

In landmark Syria elections, women still face electoral hurdles (Marie Forestier – Atlantic Council)

Syrians are about to complete a new and important step of the country’s transition after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime last year: the...

The EU won’t tariff China and India to please Trump. But it is working on a counteroffer (Charles Lichfield – Atlantic Council)

Several measures in the European Union’s (EU’s) nineteenth sanctions package against Russia, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday, appear...

The economic roots of Nepal’s uprising—and what it means for the region (Rudabeh Shahid, Nischal Dhungel, and Shakthi De Silva – Atlantic Council)

Last week, Nepal became the third South Asian country in three years to see its government collapse under the weight of mass protests. On...
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