Global Order
Is Climate Diplomacy Becoming National Security Policy?
Over the last few years, there has been a significant change in how governments conceptualise and approach climate change. Climate change was previously seen...
Why the Shadow Fleet’s Baltic Reckoning Won’t Look Like the Mediterranean’s
On August 2nd, Italian commandos rappelled from a helicopter onto the deck of the Toa Payoh, a Russian-linked crude carrier, in the Mediterranean. It...
Asia’s Shifting Balance of Power and the New Regional Order
The foundational principles of the balance of power has found its textual footing primarily through the works of Hans Morgenthou and Kenneth Waltz. It ...
Who Brokers When the Forums Fail
The way states reach one another is changing. For most of the period since 1945, conflict diplomacy was organised institutionally, through seats, mandates and...
Can Trump Bridge the Iran and Ukraine Wars?
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington on Tuesday, as the...
Did Pakistan’s Iran Ceasefire Fail, or Was It Doomed From the Start?
On July 18, Iran's deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi announced that Tehran was suspending its commitments under the ceasefire it had signed in Islamabad...
How the United States Left Japan and the Philippines Squirming in Embarrassment
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently launched a public attack on the International Criminal Court (ICC), vowing to "dismantle the ICC—brick by brick."...
The Collapse of Traditional Opposition and the Emergence of “Networked” Politics in 2025
Introduction: The Year the Street Outsmarted the State
2024 was the year of the coup and 2025 was the year of the code. The dust...
Why Strategic Autonomy Is Becoming the Global Trend
For decades, the assumption underpinning global diplomacy was simple and that was when great powers clash, smaller and mid-sized states eventually have to pick...
Why Can Neither Washington Nor Tehran Talk Without Pakistan in the Room?
The 2026 war between Israel, the United States and Iran produced two outcomes that are easy to conflate but analytically distinct. The first was...