Diplomacy & International Relations

Japan’s maritime cooperation in Southeast Asia (Takahiro Kamisuna, IISS)

In January 2025, during his first visit to Indonesia as Japanese prime minister, Ishiba Shigeru announced that Japan would send two high-speed patrol vessels...

Japan and the US – tariffs, gaiatsu and options (Robert Ward, IISS)

Japan would be adversely affected by increased US tariffs but has a history of responding positively to policy lurches in Washington. Pressure from the...

What Gen Z Thinks About U.S. Foreign Policy (Christopher S. Chivvis, Lauren Morganbesser – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

In less than ten years, some members of Gen Z—born roughly between 1997 and 2012—will be eligible to serve as president of the United...

Russia’s Indo-Pacific Pivot: Patchy, Persistent, and Problematic (Robert McKinnon – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

With the horrors of Moscow’s 2022 full scale invasion of Ukraine dominating Western policies toward Russia, it is easy to forget that, at the...

Why trade tensions are a ‘storm cloud’ over financial markets (Spencer Feingold – World Economic Forum)

New US tariffs have upended global trade and caused significant volatility in financial markets. In early April, global stock markets plummeted after US President...

Language, Memory, and the Fragility of US–Iran Nuclear Diplomacy (Ludovica Castelli, Stimson Center)

On December 19, 2003, Libya announced that it would dismantle its weapons of mass destruction program, ending a decade-long effort to acquire nuclear weapons....

Why Russia Isn’t Doomed (Mathew Burrows, Collin Meisel – Stimson Center)

Russia’s pivot to the East, prevalent through increased economic ties to China, solidifies the geopolitical theory that the world’s economic center of gravity is...

The Future of AI is Sovereign: How it Evolves is Up to Us (Trisha Ray, Observer Research Foundation)

Advanced Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally strange. We can think of this “strangeness” in terms of the classic iceberg analogy. At the tip of the...

Navigating the Entanglements in the U.S.-China Quantum Technology Race (Linda Nhon, Andreas Kuehn – Observer Research Foundation)

Trump 2.0’s overall policy directions in critical and emerging technologies will likely hew to common expectations. The details, however, of what technologies the new...
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