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The CPEC Effect: Why China and Pakistan Are Resetting Security
This interaction on January 7, 2026 between Wang Xiaohong and Mohsin Naqvi, which took place in Beijing, stirred an event which China and Pakistan...
New Routledge Handbook Analyzes Middle East’s Shifting Economic Power
The purpose of the book is a multidisciplinary, comprehensive overview of economic structures, development trajectories in the Middle East, and possible challenges. The book...
The theologizing of the Russian Secret Services and the targeting of Ecumenical Patriarchate
On 12 January 2026, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, published a text attacking Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with language closer to a security briefing...
Strategic Lessons from Kennedy-Macmillan for Japan-South Korea Ties
Periods of structural instability tend to expose the difference between formal alliances and functional strategic partnerships. In the early 1960s, at the height of...
Why the F-35 Fighter is Wrong for Canada’s Air Force but Right for Its Navy
Authors: Raymond Floreani and Dr.Julian Spencer Churchill
Today the debate rages over whether to cap the RCAF buy at 88 F-35As and 16 aircraft and...
The US withdrawal from 66 global organisations bells danger to Multilateralism
Marked by the evolution of a multilateral order characterized by the United Nations, Bretton Woods institutions, and a broad suite of international organizations, it...
ASEAN’s Multilateral Dilemma: Continuity and Change from NAM to BRICS
Authors: Evi Fitriani and Anis H. Bajrektarevic
ASEAN’s enduring strength has never been its ability to project power, but its capacity to manage diversity through...
Cambodia-Thailand Border Conflict: Restraint in the Digital Information Battlefield
The joint statement that Cambodia and Thailand signed on 27 December 2025 to renew the ceasefire includes a clause stating that “both sides agree...
Scars of Rwanda in El Fasher’s Demise
The ongoing war in Sudan is one of the most overlooked conflicts of the 21st century that has implications of spilling over not just...
Diego Garcia’s Special Status and Why It Was Not Negotiated
On May 22, 2025, the agreement between the UK and Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, was concluded. Both parties agreed that...