Peru’s fractious party system has made governing a challenge, even when there has been relative consensus over the country’s ...

The Iran war inhibited progress at the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. But so did P5 countries’ resistance to ...

Why rules-supporting countries should establish a ‘third pole’ in the global economy, without the US and China ...

Leaps in AI models are making middle powers anxious about their cybersecurity. But previous cyber crises teach us that they ...

Image — Qingdao Port being loaded with foreign trade containers in Shandong Province, China, on 19 May 2026. CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images. Associate Fellow, Global Economy and Finance ...

Recent months have seen a growing backlash against AI technologies as they develop and are deployed at scale. Water use in data centres and the stress that use is putting on local water resources has ...

President Donald Trump has suggested that Denmark’s claim to Greenland is doubtful, reflecting the public musings of his Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Rather than the ‘niceties of ...

On 26 August, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a new resolution on global AI governance. Resolution A/79/325 sets up two new governance mechanisms: an Independent International Scientific Panel ...

Half the hall in Munich gave US Secretary of State Marco Rubio a standing ovation following his speech – out of relief at his declaration that ‘the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own’.

By tightening the price cap on Russia’s oil exports and enforcing restrictions on shipments more robustly, Ukraine’s allies can increase the pressure on Putin to end the war.

On 7 June Armenia will hold one of its most pivotal elections since regaining independence in 1991. The vote arrives as the country is poised between a painful redefinition of its identity and a still ...