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The Washington Summit and Its Implications for South Caucasus Geopolitics
For decades, establishing lasting peace in the South Caucasus has been one of the most persistent challenges for regional states and international actors alike....
What does the US’s foreign aid withdrawal mean for the Pacific region?
Following his victory in the 2024 U.S. elections, Donald Trump re-entered the presidential office as a highly controversial figure. In the fields of foreign...
Greece’s Energy Future: Why Renewables Trump Hydrocarbons
A Strategic Counter-Argument to Recent Hydrocarbon Advocacy
Yannis Bassias’s recent article advocating for Greece’s return to hydrocarbon exploration fundamentally misreads both economic trends and strategic...
Peacemaking or Power Play? The U.S. and China’s Race for Global Influence
There is one notable element of the July 28 ceasefire meeting in Kuala Lumpur between Cambodia and Thailand under the auspices of the ASEAN...
What Russia Wants in Africa — and How It Plans to Get It
For African countries, more and more diverse economic opportunities have opened up primarily due to the changing geopolitical dynamics around the world today. These...
Malaysia’s growing economic linkages with BRICS countries
Like several other countries in the ASEAN region, Malaysia has begun to face the challenge of walking a tight rope between China and the...
Trump has won the strategic game of the next hundred years
On August 15, 2025, the “fateful” meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart took place in Alaska. The meeting marked the...
Alaska Without a Deal: The Trump–Putin Summit and the War That Won’t End
The much-hyped Alaska meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded with no ceasefire, no agreement, and no concrete pathway...
More Diplomacy, Not Minefields, Needed to Secure Peace in the South Caucasus
On August 8, 2025, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of Armenia signed a joint declaration for peace at the...
Indonesia’s Democratic Future Starts in Its Schools
With a poor child in Papua completing roughly six years of school and a Jakarta child completing eleven, Indonesia is not simply unequal —...