Diplomacy & International Relations

Taiwan’s ‘Great Recall’ a Historic Bid to Overturn the Opposition’s Legislative Majority (Courtney Donovan Smith – The Jamestown Foundation)

In a historic first for any democracy at the national level, mass recall campaigns in Taiwan are seeking to overturn the opposition’s legislative majority...

Houthis Resume Red Sea Ship Attacks (Soufan Center)

The Houthis’ attack on a Greek-owned, Liberia-flagged ship in the Red Sea on Sunday, that caused the ship’s crew to abandon the stricken vessel,...

Trade Deals Need More Than Ninety Days (Inu Manak – Council on Foreign Relations)

When President Donald Trump paused his sky-high “reciprocal” tariffs just a few days after introducing them on April 2 (what he called Liberation Day),...

What really came out of this year’s BRICS summit? (Valentina Sader and Ignacio Albe – Atlantic Council)

Much of the international media coverage surrounding the 2025 BRICS summit in Rio this week focused on who wasn’t in the room, Russian President...

For the US and the free world, security demands a resilience-first approach (Elizabeth Sizeland – Atlantic Council)

This report is made possible through the vision and generosity of Adrienne Arsht, whose commitment to resilience as a national and global imperative has...

April, July, now August: Our expert guide to Trump’s latest tariff moves (Atlantic Council)

Is it a punt or a two-minute drill? In April, US President Donald Trump set Wednesday, July 9, as the day that his sweeping...

When stars align: Leveraging European defence budgets to drive a dual-use tech boom (Joris Teer, Giuseppe Spatafora – EUISS)

Europe’s security and economic competitiveness are under growing strain. Danish intelligence estimates indicate that Russia could test NATO’s Article 5 in a few years...

Brazil’s BRICS agenda may be hard to accomplish after the Iran–Israel war (Christopher Sabatini – Chatham House)

On 6-7 July the founding BRICS member countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will convene in Rio de Janeiro, joined by...

Back-to-back BRICS and Quad meetings highlight India’s increasingly difficult balancing act (Chietigj Bajpaee – Chatham House)

Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar attended the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) foreign ministers’ meeting in Washington on 1 July, just days before Prime...

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