More: Diplomacy
Myanmar Between India and China: The Politics of Strategic Leverage
Myanmar's President, Min Aung Hlaing, visited India from May 30 to June 3, marking his first visit to the country since military takeover. After...
Can July 11 Prevent a Wider Middle East War?
Authors: Nazish Mehmood and Dr. Qasim Ali Shah*
With missiles firing from both sides and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral ceremony underway, president Trump declaring the...
Australia and India seal uranium export agreement
Australia and India reached an agreement on Thursday to allow Australian uranium exports for India's civilian nuclear energy programme, marking a significant step in...
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...