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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is in Washington D.C. Thursday for talks with President Donald Trump and top administration officials... Read More

In fact, a stronger continental posture on Ukraine is what he has wanted to see all along.    Read More

For all the vast amounts of analysis and the constant discussion dedicated to the Ukraine war across Western media and specialist centres,... Read More

Since 2017, China has promoted an alternative world order that seeks to position China as the leading representative of Global South... Read More

In the market chaos since April 2 “liberation day”, investors are appearing to view India as a hedge against a potential flux in... Read More

They’re even shelving plans for an elected mayor of Dublin because they fear McGregor would win. Read More

Last week, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth completed a highly anticipated trip to Panama. Hegseth spent several days in the country as part... Read More

Two sides edging toward trade talks after wild escalations but China holds more cards in this game of make-a-deal than Trump realizes   Read More

How a Rogue Superpower Will Remake the Global Order   Read More

When will President Donald Trump's trade war with China end? Will it end? And if it does, who's to say another American president at... Read More

There are plenty of economic justifications for placing tariffs on China. But bringing American manufacturing home and rebalancing global... Read More

Hamas is facing a new problem in Gaza: coming up with the cash it needs to pay its rank and file.   Read More

The Islamic Republic has never been weaker   Read More

Russia stands to benefit greatly from the rise in global temperatures.   Read More

On April 4th, South Korea’s Constitutional Court affirmed the National Assembly’s impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol,... Read More

The European Union does poorly in the race to win influence in Central Asia, and will need to up its game to rival China, Russia, and the... Read More

The transatlantic relationship, long a cornerstone of global stability, is undergoing a profound shift.  Read More

Adam Smith defined how we think about free markets. His guiding principle was, famously, the invisible hand – a mystical force or the... Read More

Despite Donald Trump’s lurch into protectionism and coercion, Friedrich Merz believes a transatlantic trade deal can still be... Read More

Brussels must take a firmer stance on Turkey’s violations of international law, reinforcing support for Cypriot... Read More

Twentieth-century history shows that ideological secularism is not the solution to political violence.   Read More

A wave of violently suppressed political protests following the October 2024 National Election Commission’s... Read More

The ramped-up U.S. attacks against the Yemen-based Houthis are possible in part due to an extensive military footprint in the Middle East.... Read More

The Trump administration plans to use ongoing tariff negotiations to pressure U.S. trading partners to limit their dealings with China,... Read More

The Trump administration seeks to make the defense of Taiwan a central element of its Pacific strategy, but its trade policies are making... Read More

Vital lessons from ancient Greece on the risks of sliding into war or a load of irrelevant ancient claptrap?   Read More

General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly wants to prepare China for a war over Taiwan. The measures he is taking to ready... Read More

Taiwan has an inadvertent, rarely acknowledged role in global affairs: it’s a kind of sponge, soaking up much of China’s... Read More

President Donald Trump’s efforts to get a nuclear deal with Iran have met a formidable obstacle: the Israel lobby.    Read More

Through sheer tenacity, the Israeli prime minister fended off unremitting pressure from Washington and reshaped the regional map. But his... Read More

As Europeans rearm to confront Russian aggression, they also need to figure out how to survive in the age of “unpeace” that... Read More

Europe was accustomed for so long to an alliance with the United States where the contributions and benefits were so uneven in Europe’s... Read More

iorgia Meloni finally has the chance to demonstrate that befriending the volatile occupant of the White House was worth the effort.  Read More

Since existing fact-checkers have failed to redirect political discourse toward the government line, new censorship laws are deemed... Read More

The deal signed last week between the centre-right CDU and centre-left SPD paves the way for vital investment in Europe’s biggest... Read More

Relations between Algeria and France have nosedived lately, due to disagreement over autonomy for the Western Sahara, immigration tensions, a... Read More

Climate change has produced a rise in global temperatures over the past few decades, producing major consequences for Arctic... Read More

On a clear evening this January, flights out of Miami, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale suddenly ground to a halt.  Read More

No matter what name it goes by, the Global Engagement Center is dead. It will not return. Read More

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, many Western analysts and scholars who study post-Soviet countries expected those... Read More

In the wake of Donald Trump’s hot-and-cold trade war, Europe has attempted to get closer to China. Read More

Iran’s government cannot afford to wait for a deal with Washington, Iran’s government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani... Read More

The “neo-Ottoman” dreams of American Turkey-watchers exceed reality.   Read More

In March 2025, a small flotilla of Chinese warships sailed around Australia, raising fears reminiscent of Japan’s threat in 1942.... Read More

Stakeholders in the maritime enterprise must think in grand Mahanian terms about rejuvenating U.S. sea power. Trump’s new executive... Read More