Diplomacy & International Relations

Conflict minerals and wars over natural resources (Emma Saunders, Lisa Toremark – Chatham House)

Conflict minerals are minerals that are high in demand, which makes them valuable to conflict actors to extract and sell to fund armed groups....

Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war (UN News)

In Yemen, a decade of conflict has proved catastrophic for the country’s children living under the threat of airstrikes and staggeringly high malnutrition rates,...

Trump Threatens Iran to Secure New Talks (The Soufan Center)

Trump is employing military action against Iran’s allies, and threatening strikes on Iran itself, to induce Iranian leaders to agree to new talks on...

Critical Raw Materials and European Defence (IISS)

Security of supply issues are of growing concern for defence policymakers. This relates to components, platforms and munitions, but also to the raw materials...

China’s shadow fleet threatens Indo-Pacific communications (Mercedes Page, The Strategist)

China is using increasingly sophisticated grey-zone tactics against subsea cables in the waters around Taiwan, using a shadow-fleet playbook that could be expanded across...

How the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Became a Weapon for Moscow and Washington (Ksenia Luchenko, Carnegie Russia Eurasia)

This spring, a new Ukrainian law—“On the protection of the constitutional order in the activities of religious organizations”—comes into force. One of its goals...

Auditing the Auditors: Does Putin Trust Anyone Now? (Andrey Pertsev, Carnegie Russia Eurasia)

A new type of Russian bureaucrat has emerged in recent years: those appointed by President Vladimir Putin to oversee certain agencies or sectors, and...

Taking the Pulse: Should “Buy European” in Defense Spending Include the UK and Turkey? (Carnegie Europe)

Amid Russia’s war in Ukraine and uncertainty over U.S. security guarantees, the EU is increasing its defense funding. Given the UK and Turkey’s significant...

Who’s Going to Unite Europe on Defense? (Sophia Besch, Erik Brown – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine shocked Europe into the realization that war had returned to the continent, Europeans are now reeling...
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