Analysis and commentary on geopolitics, foreign policy, diplomacy, security, and global governance. This category examines how states pursue their interests, manage conflicts, build partnerships, and shape the evolving international order.
Germany has spent the better part of a decade building its international reputation around one particular story: an aggressive, legally binding shift away from coal and toward renewable energy. So when reports surfaced that lawmakers were reviewing whether to bring mothballed coal plants back online, it understandably raised a lot of eyebrows. Is Germany actually […]
For months, the smart money in Washington was betting on fireworks. Trade lawyers, corporate lobbyists, and policymakers across three countries had spent the better part of a year bracing for a bruising confrontation over the future of the USMCA — the trade pact binding the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Instead, the deadline arrived, and […]
For decades, certain regions of the world have organized much of their foreign policy around a single assumption: that a dominant outside power would guarantee their security. When that assumption starts to look shaky — whether due to a change in strategy, a costly conflict, competing domestic priorities, or a simple loss of confidence — […]
At a moment when global trade patterns are being redrawn and supply chains reassembled by geopolitical pressure, two of Southeast Asia’s most strategically intertwined economies met in Jakarta to reaffirm the depth — and expand the ambition — of their bilateral partnership. The 16th Singapore-Indonesia Six Bilateral Economic Working Groups Ministerial Meeting, held in Jakarta […]