The US military budget for 2025 maintains the traditional defense posture of out-spending any near-peer competitor; however, its only getting harder to keep pace.

While China and Russia make moves to shore up their positions in the geopolitical contest to come, the United States and Brussels opt for a comforting state of denial.

Fresh off a controversial electoral deal in 2023, the ruling Puea Thai party is shedding support rapidly, leaving Move Forward well placed to come to power whenever the next Thai election is held.

A Western reproduction of Belt and Road is not desirable, let alone feasible. Rather, if the West is to make up ground in the Global South, it will start with win-win cooperation that takes the interests of non-aligned partners into account.

Assessing Iran’s ability to wage war across the domains of politics, military, economy, and diplomacy.

The Central Caucasus is back on the geopolitical map, evident in the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) and with it, China’s growing political influence.

The discovery of ephedra plants in Afghanistan and a booming end-user market in the Gulf States is fueling a growing drug crisis across the Middle East.

Leadership is expected to turn over in key Western states, bringing new policies that will reverberate throughout the global order. This backgrounder examines five key figures poised to form governments in the near future.

The southern Africa states of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have agreed to shared visa scheme, but future steps at regional integration won’t come easy.

Syria has ramped up captagon production in the post-civil war period, with destabilizing consequences for the region and, gradually, the regime itself.