Diplomacy & International Relations

Central and Eastern Europe and the Global Economic Fragmentation (Jan Boguslawski – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

Since the 2020s, what the International Monetary Fund calls “global economic fragmentation” (GEF) has intensified, marked by weakening trade coordination, the return of protectionism,...

New Turmoil in Regulating Deep Seabed Mining on the High Seas (Tom LaTourrette, Douglas C. Ligor – RAND Corporation)

The still potential-but-perhaps-soon-to-be-real world of seabed mining took an interesting turn in the past month. The announcement from The Metals Company that it “has...

Militarization of Regional Policy Leads to Decline of Federalism in Russia (Vadim Shtepa – The Jamestown Foundation)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly relied on expansionist, militaristic foreign policy in his 25-year rule to centralize power and justify the dissolution of...

Russian Sanction Evasion Drives Development of Alternative International Economic System (Ksenia Kirillova – The Jamestown Foundation)

The Kremlin is developing and spreading sanction evasion tactics to create an alternative international economic system populated by rogue states. Russia’s burgeoning international economic...

Cyber-espionage campaign found targeting exiled Uyghurs (Suzanne Smalley – The Record)

Senior members of an international organization for exiled members of China’s Uyghur ethnic minority were targeted in March with a spearphishing campaign designed to...

The Kashmir attack will renew hostilities between India and Pakistan (Chietigj Bajpaee, Chatham House)

On 22 April, a terror attack in the Baisaran Valley near Pahalgam in Indian-administered Jammu & Kashmir claimed the lives of 26 people, mostly...

The IMF must keep pace with a changing world economy (Creon Butler, Chatham House)

The Trump administration’s recent criticism of the IMF has put the institution’s future global role into the spotlight. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused...

Independent Thinking: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (Chatham House)

As the IMF Spring Meetings unfold in Washington DC, Bronwen Maddox asks whether we are witnessing the twilight of the US dollar’s global dominance....

The Abraham Accords After Gaza: A Change of Context (Alexandre Kateb, Carnegie Middle East)

The Abraham Accords, signed at the White House on September 15, 2020, during President Donald Trump’s first administration, represented a landmark achievement in U.S....
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