Diplomacy & Crisis News

The U.S. military isn’t ready for it.

The Royal Thai Navy says that three members of the 23-person crew remain unaccounted for after yesterday's attack.

Pressing environmental and societal challenges, such as the climate crisis and social inequality, demand policy interventions to steer and accelerate sustainability transitions. This chapter highlights four key intervention areas: providing direction to transitions (directionality), fostering innovation (niche support), phasing out unsustainable practices (regime destabilisation), and coordinating transition processes (coordination). We outline their theoretical rationale in transition studies and offer interdisciplinary insights from policy research. Based on a comprehensive literature review, we present 15 concrete policy interventions to transform production and consumption systems. Evaluating these interventions with empirical findings from leading transition journals, we highlight research opportunities at the intersection of public policy and sustainability transitions. Given the resistance and contestation around transformational policies, we aim to foster interdisciplinary exchange on how to accelerate sustainability transitions.

From Manila to Hanoi, the region's governments are taking steps to absorb supply shocks and depress demand for increasingly scarce fuels.

IEA member states will distribute 400 million barrels of oil to ease the Iran war-caused supply crunch.

Duterte is accused of betraying the public trust by committing graft and corruption, bribery, and other high crimes.

From Iran to Venezuela, Trump has fully embraced offensive cyberoperations.

Pretoria’s awkward dance between Washington and Tehran.

A year before presidential elections, the National Rally has a chance of capturing Marseille, a historic hub of immigration.

Pour les droites latino-américaines, le président salvadorien fait figure de modèle en matière de lutte contre le crime organisé. Sa politique de la « main de fer » multiplie les violations des droits humains, au nom du combat antigang. Elle inspire d'autres États comme l'Équateur. Et enchante (…) / Salvador, Criminalité, Répression, Prison

Zhipu has soared on its Hong Kong debut. Now, following the launch of its GLM-5 model, the stock appears to be well-positioned to capitalize on increasingly uncertain global markets. 

Insights from Yoram Evron.

Some stanzas of "Vande Mataram" refer to Hindu goddesses. India’s religious minorities say it goes against their monotheist beliefs.

March 31 will mark the first deployment of two new Japanese systems: the Hyper Velocity Gliding Projectile (HVGP) for island defense and the upgraded Type 12 surface-to-ship missile.

Dans un entretien accordé à France 24, l'ex-député et opposant d'Ali Bongo dénonce "l'indignation" et la "colère" causées par les déclarations de l'ex-Première dame Sylvia Bongo. Cette dernière accuse les autorités gabonaises, menées par l'actuel président Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, de lui avoir fait subir des actes de torture lors de sa détention de vingt mois après le coup d'État de 2023. "C'est de la comédie de très mauvaise facture", selon Bertrand Zibi Abeghe, qui a lui-même été emprisonné pendant six ans par le régime d'Ali Bongo. 

Hoping to avoid a wipe-out at the local elections, the party finally issued an apology. But it’s going to be difficult to shake its pro-Yoon image – especially with the current leadership. 

A better future for Palestine depends on psychological recovery.

Wang’s unprecedented consolidation of roles has made the Two Sessions press conference the most authoritative foreign policy signal Beijing produces. It has also made it the most rigid.

The conflict is exposing a hierarchy of energy vulnerability across the Indo-Pacific.

Les Nations Unies condamnent fermement l’escalade de la violence survenue à l’aube de ce mercredi 11 mars à Goma, au Nord-Kivu, après une attaque présumée de drones qui a coûté la vie à un membre de son personnel et à deux civils.