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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...
Is the Clock Finally Striking the Hour of ‘the African Moment’?
In his 1998 chronicle of the Rwandan genocide, journalist Philip Gourevitch calls Africa a region that generates major catastrophes, ‘but don’t really make meaningful...
Beyond Imperialism and Sphere of Influence: Greenland and the Reordering of Strategic Space
Every time Donald Trump revives his demand for American control of Greenland, most recently at the July 2026 NATO summit in Ankara, the response...
What Happens If the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Returns?
The world drew a collective sigh of relief on June 18 when Iran and the US announced a memorandum for peace, paving the way...
ASEAN needs a hedging code, not just hedging instincts
Southeast Asia is not choosing Beijing over Washington. It only looks that way. What is actually happening is more consequential: the region's governments are...
Why Do National AI Strategies Stall in Southeast Asia?
Three Southeast Asian governments entered the AI race at almost the same time. Indonesia published its Strategi Nasional Kecerdasan Artifisial in 2020. Malaysia followed with its...
Why China Is Watching Egypt’s New Octagon Defense HQ
The coverage and analyses by the Chinese press and official media, as well as Chinese intelligence, military, defense, and security think tanks and their...
How the Ankara Summit Became the Most Important NATO Meeting
The spending commitments, the Ukraine pledges, the bilateral deals that summits are supposed to produce were all delivered at the Ankara summit; but the...
Thirteen Signatures, One Big Game: Dhaka’s China Gamble
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman completed his four day visit to China on Friday. With so much speculation about his first visit, he completed his...
Who May “Toll” the Strait of Hormuz
On 20 June, Donald Trump posted that there would be no tolls in the Strait of Hormuz during the sixty-day ceasefire, and none after...