Diplomacy & Crisis News

No one—not least in postcolonial West Africa—loves an army of occupation.

Even rigged elections used to be an outlet for discontent. That avenue is now closed.

As wars disrupt traditional export routes, Ankara is moving quickly to capitalize—at the expense of the last standing heartland of the Fertile Crescent.

It’s in everyone’s interest to stop the fighting. That’s still not enough.

Airstrikes are no longer intermittent dangers as they were two years ago, but a constant hazard. They are part of the people’s daily lives, woven into their collective consciousness.

Could the conventionally-powered KSS-III sub offer a more affordable and timely alternative to the planned nuclear-powered fleet?

Rights groups claim that Nguyen Duc Thuan and Tran Hiep were abducted in Cambodia, in line with a pattern of growing transnational repression by the Vietnamese state.

Will the region's demand for artificial intelligence services justify the enormous outlays of money and resources?

Why America and Iran fight on without victory.

The petition concerned the use of barcodes and QR codes on ballot papers, which some claimed could breach constitutional requirements for secret voting.

China’s president has likely concluded that the U.S. under Trump has lost its way.

The cuts are on $60 billion worth of goods—but, crucially, soybeans aren’t included.

The president’s call to rebrand AI as “super intelligence” has led to a surge of interest in Slovenia’s “.si” web domain.

Modernization has expanded women’s choices and made the traditional sequence of adulthood – marry, have children, settle near family – less inevitable.

Whether he means to or not, the U.S. president is feeding China’s active disinformation campaigns – especially on Taiwan.

The AUKUS partnership survived the Trump transition, and for Canberra it may be too big a deal to ever let fail.

New Delhi’s difficult decision serves as a masterclass in how personal diplomacy can trap a major power.

One important mantra for the RBAirF: Don’t try to run before you can walk.

The country’s troubling relationship to China is at the center of its presidential campaign.

Decisions taken in Washington and Beijing increasingly shape European trade, technology, energy, and security.