Given the spectacular killing of Yevgeny Prigozhin and the less-than-spectacular Ukrainian counter-offensive, it’s looking a lot tougher to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fortunately, the ...

In the 1980s, a growing amicability in US-China economic relations began to emerge despite ongoing political tensions. Policymakers in both countries concentrated their efforts on formalizing trade ...

This contribution was written as part of the research project Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict [grant number 01UG2205A], funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

El Salvador’s ‘maverick’ [1] president, Nayib Bukele, has proposed a unique agreement with the United States, offering to house American criminals and deportees [2] in its notorious mega-prison, ...

Political campaigns have been repurposed to accommodate the importance of social media platforms as powerful tools for communication, outreach, and influence. The 2024 U.S. presidential election ...

On October 31, 2025, Christos Rozakis, former Greek Deputy Foreign Minister, stated that “Turkey and Greece came very close to an agreement over the Aegean in 2003.” Türkiye would accept a 12-nautical ...

On July 9, 1982, after three series of multilateral conferences spanning decades of rigorous negotiations, President Ronald Reagan formally announced that the United States would not sign the United ...

This is a shortened, significantly revised article based on the authors’ chapter “Shifting balances – the war and Russia’s neighbours,” published in the report “Russia’s War Against Ukraine and the ...

The South China Sea is a major flashpoint that could escalate into the next regional war, as various Asian countries and world powers rely on maritime shipping, resources, and security for their ...

A recent working paper from a team of experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) noted that, “Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring distinguishes itself from others by its complexity due to a ...

Zoe H. Robbin is a Fulbright research fellow in Amman, Jordan. She co-leads Foreign Policy for America’s NextGen Diplomacy Working Group. The views expressed here do not represent the views of the ...

After a prolonged period of relative peace between states, the last fifteen years have seen an explosion of global interstate conflict, with conflict between military forces of sovereign nations ...