Asia & Pacific

Stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Rim, the Asia–Pacific holds the world’s fastest-growing economies and its most consequential rivalries. Regional cooperation deepens in some areas while maritime and technological competition intensifies in others. GCIRD studies these intersecting trends and their implications for global order.

From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

December 7, 2025

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

December 7, 2025

Long Rates in a Fragmented Global Economy

December 6, 2025

When the AI Boom Stumbles: How a Market Slide Could Reshape American Power and Asia’s Balance

December 6, 2025

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

Growing turbulence in the maritime and space domains is reshaping strategic competition, as disruptive tactics, fragile infrastructure and shifting industrial power undermine long-standing assumptions about global stability. The emerging contest is defined less by open confrontation than by persistent ambiguity and pressure that steadily reshapes the balance of influence.

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

by david

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Hierarchy, Dependence and United States Foreign Military Sales in the Contemporary Security Order

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

Digital platforms that finance invoices and pay suppliers early are quietly becoming one of the strongest levers in the global economy. As great...

by Amin Nouri

November 25, 2025

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

Tariffs are returning just as tighter global credit and a powerful financial cycle come to dominate world trade. The convergence of weaponised trade...

by david

November 25, 2025

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

The next industrial revolution is not just about smarter factories but about geopolitics and social order. This essay argues that the shift from...

November 25, 2025

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Rising temperatures are exposing not only a failure of ambition but a failure of governance. This essay argues that climate policy is a...

November 25, 2025

From Chokepoint to Network in the Geopolitics of Rare Earths and US-China Rivalry

Rare earths have turned from obscure inputs into one of the sharpest tools in US-China competition. China still dominates processing and magnet production,...

November 25, 2025

Rare Earths and the Hard Edge of Interdependence

China’s grip on rare earth processing has turned obscure minerals into one of the sharpest tools in its strategic contest with the United...

November 25, 2025

Hierarchy, Dependence and United States Foreign Military Sales in the Contemporary Security Order

The United States now provides nearly half of global major weapons exports, and its Foreign Military Sales programme has become a central tool...

November 23, 2025

Trump 2.0 and India in a Contest of Trade and Power

Trump’s second term has pushed US–India ties into a bruising tariff fight over Russian oil even as both capitals still see each other...

November 23, 2025

Busan and the Bargain Politics of the US China Rivalry

Trump’s second term has turned China policy into a rolling negotiation over tariffs, tech access and headline “wins,” with the Busan summit showcasing...

November 23, 2025

Southeast Asia’s Many Anchors in an Age of Rivalry

Southeast Asian states are no longer hedging between Washington and Beijing so much as stitching together layered defence partnerships with the United States,...

November 23, 2025

Asia & Pacific

From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

Long Rates in a Fragmented Global Economy

When the AI Boom Stumbles: How a Market Slide Could Reshape American Power and Asia’s Balance

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Hierarchy, Dependence and United States Foreign Military Sales in the Contemporary Security Order

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

From Chokepoint to Network in the Geopolitics of Rare Earths and US-China Rivalry

Rare Earths and the Hard Edge of Interdependence

Hierarchy, Dependence and United States Foreign Military Sales in the Contemporary Security Order

Trump 2.0 and India in a Contest of Trade and Power

Busan and the Bargain Politics of the US China Rivalry

Southeast Asia’s Many Anchors in an Age of Rivalry

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