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US Retreat and China’s Ascent at the 2025 Munich Security Conference
The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC) in 2025 took place amid a world that is becoming more fragmented, with the decline of American hegemony...
DRC Crisis: Start of a Wider Regional Conflict
27th January, 2025. For the second time in the last ten years, rebels from the March 23 Movement, or M23, captured Goma– the provincial...
Navigating Sovereignty, Security and Humanity: The ASEAN Way and the Rohingya Crisis
Established on August 8, 1967, ASEAN is a regional organization of Southeast Asian countries, consisting of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar,...
Lebanon: The Long Road from Sectarianism to the Illusion of a Stable State
Lebanon’s past reflects a delicate sectarian equilibrium, formally embedded in the 1943 National Pact, an unwritten understanding aimed at dividing authority among the country’s...
From Goma to Bujumbura: The M23 and the Fragmentation of the Great Lakes
The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has become a geopolitical powder keg, with the potential to engulf the entire Great...
The Chinese Triads in Southeast Asia: ASEAN Endeavour in Undertaking TOC
As the century goes by, criminal activities have gone through an evolution of appearances. Its motives varied according to the increase of their personal...
Afghanistan: Security Concerns Highlighted by 66th SIGAR Report
The 66th quarterly report by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), released on January 30, 2025, has once again brought to...
Why China Cannot Accept a “Chinese Commonwealth”?
What does Beijing hate most? Chaos. What's the deadliest kind of chaos? Integrating "American teammates" into the Chinese system.
In discussions regarding China and Taiwan,...
Beyond Rescue: Why Humanitarian Aid Needs Government Backing in War Zones
Amidst the chaos of conflict-driven zones, where hospitals are bombed, families flee, and entire communities are displaced, humanitarian organizations emerge as lifelines, tirelessly providing...
The Human Toll of Sudan’s Forgotten War
The Sudanese civil conflict continues to cause a relentless humanitarian crisis, which has only partially emerged into the limelight with minimal international coverage. The...