Diplomacy & International Relations

What to Make of Macron’s Recent Defence Spending Commitments? (Amy Greene – RUSI)

On 13 July, 2025, in his annual address to French armed forces, President Emmanuel Macron announced increases in defence spending to take place over...

AML Insights: Lithuania (Kinga Redlowska – RUSI)

As Lithuania engages with the evolving EU Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulatory architecture, a recent workshop in Vilnius, co-hosted by Lithuania’s Center of Excellence in...

Modi visit marks elevation of India–UK relationship, but risks and ambiguities remain (Chietigj Bajpaee – Chatham House)

The primary purpose of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UK this week was ceremonial: to sign the free trade agreement (FTA)...

Milei’s Argentina shows where South America might be heading (David Lubin – Chatham House)

The Argentine government’s experiment with ‘chainsaw economics’ has delivered some notable successes, despite its many controversies; and its architect, President Javier Milei, remains remarkably...

Independent Thinking: Trump’s tools – tariffs and sanctions (Chatham House)

How much of Donald Trump’s sanctions strategy is substance – and how much is performance? In this episode of Independent Thinking, Chatham House experts...

The Twilight of International Peacemaking Institutions? (Richard Gowan – Crisis Group)

These are hard times for formal international institutions. The post-Cold War period saw the rapid expansion of multilateral organisations in numerous policy domains, not...

How 12 days have changed Iran (John Raine – IISS)

All parties are claiming victory in the ‘12-day war’, which ended on 25 June. United States President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

UK–France defence: a statement of entente for wider European security? (Nick Childs – IISS)

The United Kingdom and France have revamped and strengthened their nuclear and conventional defence cooperation through the Lancaster House 2.0 and Northwood declarations. To...

Sanctions and Military Action Fail to Stop Houthi Attacks (Soufan Center)

Alone among Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” partners, the Houthi movement in Yemen remains undeterred despite U.S. and Israeli military action as well as the...

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