This week we examine the potential impact of new protests on US-Iran negotiations, fallout from the US Supreme Court striking down President Trump’s landmark tariff policy, new rare earth magnet ...

As seen in the recent Orion critical minerals deal, the next chapter of mining consolidation will likely be defined through ...

The 2026 Addis Ababa Summit revealed a tension between idealism and urgency. The rhetoric of unity, justice, and water security speaks to a continental aspiration for dignity. Yet hard power realities ...

The US-India interim framework on secondary tariffs is less the epilogue to a short trade dispute than a trial by fire for tariff conditionality as a sanctions enforcement instrument.

This week we examine Trump’s embrace of the Chavista regime in Venezuela, reports of multiple assassination attempts targeting President al-Shaara in Syria, Beijing’s accelerating efforts to offload ...

The ‘ASEAN Way’ has failed to protect Philippines sovereignty in the South China Sea, so Manila is taking matters into its own hands and pursuing minilateral agreements with likeminded powers.

The highly personalized nature of the Eritrea regime has allowed Isaias Afwerki to remain in power for decades, but there’s neither a plan nor an institutional mechanism to stabilize the country when ...

In the first weeks of 2026, two distant territories—Gaza in the Middle East and Greenland in the Arctic—became unlikely mirrors of a profound shift in global power dynamics. What unites them is not ...

The most consequential shifts in US foreign policy don’t always arrive with a prime-time speech. They show up in agency language and the kind of technical guidance that compliance teams quietly build ...