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Vietnam’s Strategic Balancing Act: How It Navigates US-China Rivalry
Vietnam is considered one of the few countries that have successfully maintained a balance between the competition for influence between the US and China...
America’s Peace Deals Need an Economic Doctrine
America’s foreign policy, is markedly robust in its deal-making energy. Since January of last year, the second Trump administration has charged forward to bring...
Rational Choice and G20: The Renewable Energy Implementation Ambiguity
Renewable energy became an essential issue in G20 meetings due to the reality of climate change in recent decades. The campaign of the energy...
Foreign Influence Is Making America’s Iran War Harder to End
Trump’s renewed talks with Tehran expose an uncomfortable reality: once war begins, foreign allies and their domestic networks can raise the political cost of...
Is Climate Diplomacy Becoming National Security Policy?
Over the last few years, there has been a significant change in how governments conceptualise and approach climate change. Climate change was previously seen...
Why North Korea Gets a Pass: Is Deterrence Enough?
On 13 June 2025, Israel attacked Iranian nuclear facilities and military leadership over Iran's uranium enrichment capacity, not even a confirmed decision of a...
Mecca Defence Pact: What It Means for China, the US and the Middle East
The Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, signed on August 7, 2026, by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan, marks an important development in the evolving security...
Spain at Europe’s Humanitarian Frontier
The issue of migration has become one of the most significant humanitarian and political issues today. People risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea...
Two Navies, Two Ports: How Vietnam Is Hedging Between Great Powers
In the final days of July 2026, Vietnam’s coastline hosted an unusual sequence of guests. On 26 July, a Russian Navy flotilla – including...
Why Chinese Analysts Are Linking Morocco’s Gaza Role to Spain’s Ceuta Crisis
At first glance, Morocco’s participation in the proposed international stabilization force in Gaza and the extraordinary migration crisis in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta...