Diplomacy & International Relations

Global Health Diplomacy: Navigating Politics and Security (Lakshmy Ramakrishnan, Nimisha Chadha – Observer Research Foundation)

Health policy is classically associated with the allocation of resources for healthcare services and the affordability and effectiveness of interventions, and is thereby confined...

The Gaza Starvation Experiment (Crisis Group)

Israel’s new U.S.-backed aid scheme in Gaza integrates food into military strategy. Since the war began, Israel has restricted aid, easing up when famine...

Bomb the Cartels? Expel the Migrants? Reboot Monroe? Trump and Latin America (Crisis Group)

In this episode of Hold Your Fire!, Richard is joined by Crisis Group’s Latin America Program Director Renata Segura and Senior Policy Director Ivan Briscoe...

The Arakan Axis: Insurgency Intensifies in Southwest Myanmar (Drake Avila – Stimson Center)

A year and a half after a sweeping offensive, the Arakan Army is poised to seize control of Rakhine State from Myanmar’s military junta....

The End of American Internationalism? (Mathew Burrows, Robert A. Manning – Stimson Center)

In the past three months, Trump and his administration have boasted their swift upheaval of domestic and international programs from cutting funds for climate...

Three Big Questions for the 2025 NATO Summit (Emma Ashford, Nevada Joan Lee – Stimson Center)

In late June, US President Donald Trump will head to the Netherlands for the 2025 NATO summit, an affair which typically gives European, Canadian,...

Ukraine’s Local Actors: The Unspoken Heroes (Khrystyna Kvartsiana – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

As Ukraine advances on its path toward EU integration, anticipation is building ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 in Rome, a key international...

The Absence of Conflict Is a Win (Jackson Janes – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

The outcome of the first meeting between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and US President Donald Trump was marked as much by what did not...

Russia’s Defense Ties in the Middle East Poised to Rebound (Anna Borshchevskaya, Matt Tavares – Washington Institute for Near East Policy)

Russia’s defense relationships in the Middle East and North Africa have been gravely weakened as a result of its war in Ukraine. However, a...

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