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Enabling Responsible Space Behaviours Through Space Situational Awareness (Daouglas Barrie, Matthew Bint, Ester Sabatino – IISS)

Space is fundamental for global economic activity, but its congestion and militarisation represent risks. This report details steps taken by the UN to influence...

Great-power competition in the Panama Canal (Jenny Duan, IISS)

Panama, a small nation with outsized influence due to its role in global shipping, faces a tricky balance: navigating foreign investment and its alignment...

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...

A Look at China’s Innovative Corporate Carbon Accounting and Rating Platform (Siqi Zhong, Ting Su, Xiaozhen Li, Xinyi Zhang – World Resources Institute)

China's commitments to peak carbon emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 come with an enormous financing need. Estimates suggest the country...

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....

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