1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (945+ words) By Collins Chong Yew Keat Trump has unfinished business with Jong Un, and despite the parallel conflicts in West Asia and Ukraine, Trump sees this as a similar marked opportunity to push for a three-front diplomatic triumphs at once, with…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (171+ words) The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. View all posts by Simon Hutagalung → Simon Hutagalung is a retired diplomat from the Indonesian Foreign Ministry and received his master's degree in political science and comparative politics from the…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1199+ words) By Bikash Narayan Mishra As the historic 18th BRICS Summit gets underway in New Delhi, it is worth pausing to ask a fundamental question: how far has BRICS travelled since its inception, what has it achieved, and what can it realistically…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1327+ words) The United Nations was born 80 years ago from the ashes of the Second World War with a historic promise: that sovereign nations could come together to prevent another global catastrophe and build a rules-based international order. Eight decades later, however,…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (555+ words) Washington is exporting an AI technology stack, Beijing is building a governance coalition, and Europe is revising its timetable. Strategic advantage will belong to states that can turn new evidence into legitimate rules before the next model generation arrives. These…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (828+ words) The Gulf has entered a new strategic phase. There is therefore a wider question worth considering: How can the states of the Gulf acquire greater capacity not only to respond to crises, but to shape the regional environment in which…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (402+ words) "Imperialist Realism: Politics and Culture at the End of the American Century," by Daniel Bessner That is a valuable observation. Ideas matter. Political orders require intellectual justifications, and the categories through which people understand the world can constrain what they…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (745+ words) By K. Lloyd Billingsley On Sep. 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 people from many nations, including 24 Canadians. On the 25th anniversary, the people might recall the U.S. agency that failed to stop…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (657+ words) Governments are learning to test advanced AI systems. They also need a rule for retiring the decisions those systems leave behind. This is not simply an accuracy problem. It is a problem of time and authority. Global AI governance needs…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (308+ words) But before the meetings and the carefully worded statements, there is a more interesting story. It is about who set this visit up, what they were paid to do it, and what they promised on Hargeisa’s behalf. It was a…...