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Nauru-Australia security treaty brings confidence and stability (Blake Johnson and Astrid Young – The Strategist)

At a time when many Pacific leaders are expressing concerns about the impacts of geopolitical competition in their respective countries and the region, the...

Six months later, US soft power feels effects of USAID cuts (Melissa Conley Tyler and Heather Wrathall – The Strategist)

Six months ago, the Trump administration paused almost all foreign assistance. As more than US$60 billion of programs suddenly stopped, we predicted that people...

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...

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