Defense & Security

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Qatar’s Emerging Geo-economic Strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa

December 6, 2025

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

November 23, 2025

Trump’s Venezuela Escalation Toward Coercive Diplomacy and Regime Change

November 23, 2025

Trump, Pakistan and the Return of Transactional Bargains

November 23, 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

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

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

Gaza Between International Control and Palestinian Sovereignty

Washington is asking the UN Security Council to bless a sweeping new order for Gaza built around an international “Board of Peace” and...

November 23, 2025

Latin America’s Conditional Embrace of Washington

Latin America is leaning toward Washington for hard headed reasons: access to capital, technology and the U.S. market as Chinese finance cools and...

November 23, 2025

Europe and Russia to 2030: How a Long War Is Rebalancing Power

How the war in Ukraine is reshaping the Europe–Russia balance of power, from energy and sanctions to defence industry, demographics and global alliances,...

November 23, 2025

Europe’s Hard Power Moment: Can the EU Turn Rearmament Into Real Autonomy?

Europe is rearming at a speed it has not seen in decades, but its ability to fight without American backbone still rests on...

November 23, 2025

Recasting EU–NATO Cooperation in a Fragmented Security Order

EU–NATO cooperation increasingly determines how Europe handles war in Ukraine, Arctic competition, southern instability and climate strain, yet remains fragmented, with concrete options...

November 23, 2025

How China’s Reconstruction Diplomacy Could Rewire Ukraine

Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction is often framed as a story of solidarity and recovery, yet it is also a competition over who will rebuild...

November 23, 2025

China–Russia Military Cooperation on Taiwan: How a Battalion Contract Becomes a Two-Theater Problem

China’s quiet decision to let Russia train a PLA airborne battalion for operations against Taiwan is more than a technical upgrade. It signals...

November 23, 2025

Air Superiority under Contestation: Contemporary Campaigns and the Changing Conditions of Control in the Air Domain

The article compares Russia’s failure to secure lasting air control over Ukraine with Israel’s successful long-range campaign against Iran to show how air...

November 23, 2025