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A US–Iran Deal Is Closer — and More Fragile — Than It Looks

What the Putin-Xi Summit Reveals About China’s Long-term Strategy

Britain Needs Three Strategies for Europe’s Populist Right, Not One

The Pesky Toddler: How the Xi–Trump Summit Pushed Russia Further Off the Adult Table

Europe’s New Security Architecture

Useful or Disruptive: How a US-China Thaw Narrows Russia's Strategic Options

Russia’s Hybrid War Against Europe

The US-Iran War: Neither Side Is Hurting Enough to Talk

UAExit: UAE Quits OPEC

Orbán's election defeat frees €90 billion for Ukraine — but the harder question is EU membership

"Is the American strategy working or flailing?" — Iran, the blockade, and China

Lebanon strikes expose a major flaw in Trump’s Iran deal

Orbán's re-election campaign exposes tensions at the heart of Donald Trump’s plans to boost the far‑right in Europe

“For Israel, this is the worst possible outcome!” — Trump, the Mullahs, Israel: what happens next?

Operation Epic Fury has changed the world. Here's our map of its impact so far and what might come next.

What the war against Iran means for Putin and Ukraine

After four years of war, an end of the fighting in Ukraine is not in sight

Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition | Episode 2

Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition | Episode 2

Why it's worth saving the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

Pay-as-you-mediate: Iran, Ukraine and Donald Trump's board of peace

The five problems with Trump's latest Ukraine peace plan that will only prolong the war

Farcical peace talks continue in Abu Dhabi as Russia tries to bomb and freeze Ukraine into submission

Talks to end the Ukraine war keep hitting the same wall

Trump's performance at Davos underscored America's diminishing trustworthiness and dependability

Europe's push-back over Greenland forced a Trump climb-down — for now.

A privatised United Nations with a single shareholder

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine now outlasts the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany

Trump's Venezuela raid foreshadows more turbulence in a new 'great power' carve-up of the world

The US attack on Venezuela erodes further what is left of the old world order