More: Diplomacy
Will Fostering Like-Mindedness Save the Rules-Based Global Order?
In 2021, the European Union published its Joint Communication on strengthening the EU’s contribution to rules-based multilateralism—its strategy to protect the global rules-based order...
Qatar’s Balkan Strategy: Why the North Macedonia Partnership Matters in Europe’s New Geopolitics
Diplomacy is now possible for a range of actors beyond the large states in today's evolving international system. Smaller states are becoming more and...
Europe’s Pragmatic Betrayal: How Human Rights Became Negotiable
European officials met with Taliban regime representatives in Brussels last month. The meetings were quiet, focused on practical issues like migration and counterterrorism, and...
Saudi’s strategy for Yemen: a stick for the southerners, a carrot for Europe’s defense ministries
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen policy master, Riyadh’s ambassador Mohammed al-Jaber, believes in stick-and-carrot diplomacy—he shows the stick to Yemen’s dissenters and the carrot to Europe’s...
How Foreign Policy Became Portfolio Management
On 27 May the United States Treasury placed the Persian Gulf Strait Authority on its sanctions list, the body Iran had set up three...
Hung Cao’s visit and Vietnam’s art of psychological diplomacy
In diplomacy, the value of a visit sometimes lies not in the number of agreements signed or statements made, but in the symbolic message...
China and the Arab world After 70 Years of Cooperation: Partners, Not Allies
Introduction:
In June 2026, we marked the 70th anniversary of contemporary Arab-Chinese relations—which historically began in the mid-1950s, specifically in 1956. This milestone is of...
China, Cambodia Strengthen Security Partnership
Chinese President Xi Jinping has pledged to deepen security cooperation with Cambodia during talks with Cambodian Senate President Hun Sen in Beijing, underscoring the...
EU Hosts Taliban Officials in Brussels for First Time Amid Deportation Talks
European Union officials met a delegation from the Taliban administration in Brussels for the first time, marking a significant step in the bloc's limited...
US and Iran Clash Over Nuclear Inspections as Fragile Peace Deal Faces Early Strains
Fresh disagreements between the United States and Iran have emerged just days after the two sides signed a framework agreement aimed at ending months...