Global Development

A New Strategic Schema: Interpreting the 2025 National Security Strategy as a Turning Point in American Statecraft

December 6, 2025

Recasting the OIC: Türkiye’s Strategic Bid to Turn a Symbolic Forum into an Instrument of Collective Agency

December 6, 2025

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

December 6, 2025

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

November 25, 2025

Climate Strain and the Reordering of Global Food Stability

Climate stress is reshaping global food systems and widening the gap between resilient states and vulnerable regions. Rising temperatures, volatile markets, and uneven governance are turning food security into a political and strategic challenge rather than a purely agricultural one. This analysis explores how environmental pressure, economic inequality, and shifting power dynamics are redefining the global food landscape.

Recasting the OIC: Türkiye’s Strategic Bid to Turn a Symbolic Forum into an Instrument of Collective Agency

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

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

Trump, Pakistan and the Return of Transactional Bargains

Trump’s second term has pulled Pakistan back into Washington’s game as a supplier of troops, access and political cover in Gaza and Afghanistan...

November 23, 2025

Trump 2.0 and the Repricing of the US–Saudi Relationship

Trump’s second term has rebuilt the US–Saudi partnership into the main axis of Washington’s Gulf strategy, anchored in a new Strategic Defense Agreement,...

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

Navigating a New Energy Investment Landscape

Global energy is shifting from a cheap-capital, Paris-era boom in renewables to a harder, more fragmented investment landscape where security, cost and competitiveness...

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

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