For India, Nepal is a shield above its most vulnerable frontier; for China, it is a gateway into the subcontinent. Caught in between, Nepal’s fragility is never just its own; it is the fault line ...

When Saudi Arabia and Pakistan formalized a Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement in Riyadh on 17 September 2025, the declaration that “any aggression against either country shall be considered an ...

Conventional air defense has been disrupted in an age of drone warfare, where sophisticated and expensive systems risk being overwhelmed by mass strikes. But military and civilian authorities are now ...

Albania’s ascension ambitions are a reminder that geopolitics should not override conditionality as the EU navigates its next round of expansion.

Caribbean states have been among the first to confront the commodification-versus-belonging trade-offs of contemporary citizenship, and their experiences offer a glimpse into the challenges larger ...

Amid mounting airspace violations on the alliance’s eastern flank by Russian drones and jets, it’s time for NATO to respond on its own terms, rather than the Kremlin’s.

Africa engagement that the Meloni administration is hoping will help consolidate Italy’s position as Europe’s southern actor in Africa. But complex geopolitical dynamics risk reducing the Plan to yet ...

The discovery of a cache of malicious networking equipment in New York City over the weekend could represent a significant development in the ongoing evolution of hybrid warfare.

Iran’s densely populated capital Tehran has popped up repeatedly in recent news headlines over the threat of “day zero”— the point at which a city runs out of water. While Tehran is indeed ...

In any transition from post-Cold War US hegemony to a multipolar order, the China-Taiwan conflict stands as a critical bellwether, simultaneously a holdover of the previous order and a pivot point for ...