Diplomacy & Crisis News

Brazil’s leftist leader has unusually put military spending at the heart of his campaign.

What can Andrei Podelyshev’s appointment tell us about North Korea-Russia relations?

Germany’s leftist party swept to victory in Berlin by vowing to confiscate and socialize housing.

Insights from Jouko Ahvenainen.

If Australia is successful in returning to the council in 2029, it will be under significantly different circumstances than when it last held a seat.

With its traditional markets less reliable, Brazil sees immense potential in Southeast Asia's growing economies.

The KRI Sriwijaya is a small aircraft carrier and may be better understood as an amphibious support ship.

Beneath the pageantry, here's the change that matters: Washington has stopped talking about leaving China.

Both Ottawa and Brussels have good reasons to improve ties, but the EU will need to become more flexible.

The secretary of defense is now the most influential senior official in the Trump administration.

The country faces a plummeting birth rate sooner than some of its global south peers.

The deal is one of the earliest defense deals between India and the U.S. It is also the one that dragged on the longest.

This could be their worst-ever year.

Over the last half millennium, societies around the globe competed to divide up the world’s land. Nearly every square inch of soil outside Antarctica is now owned and tucked within national borders. But the oceans have largely been spared that fate. There were times throughout history when countries tried to gate and regulate the seas, but they were too vast to be controlled for long periods. During the Cold War, as technology made it far easier to imagine partitioning the world’s waterways and seabeds, great powers avoided an unrestrained race to grab the oceans. Most governments agreed to deal with them through a patchwork of treaties and multilateral bodies that sought to guarantee freedom of navigation in international waters and assign coastal seabeds to adjacent littoral states.

Why the region must brace for a new wave of turbulence.

What Kyiv needs to survive.

There are significant opportunities – and risks.

Mass protests over an 87-year-old’s eviction prompt new proposed legislation.

In the U.S.-China relationship at present, nothing might be better than something.

Regional wars have required Cairo to maneuver between competing demands.