The War That Survived Its Enemy
Twenty-five years after September 11, the Twin Towers are gone from New York’s skyline, Osama bin Laden has been dead for more than fifteen...
China’s Red Sea Strategy: How Ports Could Expand Beijing’s Maritime Influence
The Chinese presence in the Red Sea and Horn of Africa ports and projects is deeply significant, given its connection to trade and supply...
Can Trump convince skeptical allies that the Iran war is under control?
When U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations on Tuesday, he will return to a forum where he previously presented the U.S. campaign...
UK-EU Reset: Is Financial Decoupling and Energy Security Undermining the New Partnership?
Three years after Brexit, the UK-EU relationship is not converging. Financial services are diverging deliberately, defense integration is off limits, and energy markets face...
Söder’s Loyalty to Merz Is Real. It’s Also Free
Within days of the CDU's worst-ever state election result, CSU leader Markus Söder ruled out any move against Chancellor Friedrich Merz "under no circumstances,"...
Is NATO Ready for the Next War? Ukraine Raises New Questions
Russia’s war in Ukraine has become more than a test of military endurance. It has also become a live laboratory for modern warfare, exposing...
How Did Yemen’s Houthis Become a Major Regional Threat?
Yemen's Houthi movement has evolved from a local Zaydi Shi'ite revivalist group in the country's northern mountains into a heavily armed force capable of...
Can Europe Catch Up in the Global Critical Minerals Race?
Europe is trying to reduce its dependence on foreign suppliers of critical minerals, but funding shortages, fragmented decision making and slow project development are...
Is Prabowo leaving ASEAN in the haze?
For the last few weeks, Indonesia has been struggling to contain the land and forest fires on its territory. The disaster leads to a...
Deterrence by Denial: How Denmark Held the Line on Greenland
On January 17, 2026, roughly a quarter of Nuuk's population walked out into the Arctic cold to tell the President of the United States...