True North

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation at 25

A shell for a bilateralism it can no longer contain

Sep 4 • Stefan Wolff

Zelensky’s other war: why Ukraine can’t out-fight its own corruption

By Tetyana Malyarenko & Stefan Wolff

Aug 25 • Stefan Wolff

In Ukraine and Iran, the stronger side loses by not winning. The weaker side wins by not losing. Or do they?

By Martin Wählisch & Stefan Wolff

Aug 16 • Stefan Wolff

Two wars, one system: how the Iran war gave Ukraine new leverage in Washington

As Iran and Russia's wartime alliance strains under pressure, Ukraine has found new ways to make itself indispensable to Washington.

Aug 12 • Stefan Wolff

Passports and propaganda: how Russia manufactures its next conscripts from Ukrainian children

By Hervé Ascensio, Elīna Šteinerte & Stefan Wolff

Aug 4 • Stefan Wolff

Trump, Zelensky, and Netanyahu in Washington: funeral (of) diplomacy?

By David Hastings Dunn & Stefan Wolff

Jul 31 • Stefan Wolff

An Independent Chair Answers the Wrong Question

KPMG Australia's audit-leaks scandal is being read as a confidentiality breach. It is a partnership-model story — and the governance overhaul is theatre…

Jul 22 • Lucy P. Marcus

Ukraine's defence shake-up exposes rift in Zelensky's inner circle

Five defence ministers in five years — what Fedorov's dismissal reveals about the cracks in the president's war cabinet.

Jul 19 • Stefan Wolff

US-Iran Truce: Pause, Not Progress?

The 60-day window for a final peace deal seems less realistic than ever.

Jul 8 • Stefan Wolff

The Rot Was Always There: FIFA, Trump and the Myth of Reform

FIFA wasn’t Trumpified — it was ever thus: the corruption is structural, not Trump-made, and the reforms never touched the money.

Jul 7 • Lucy P. Marcus

NATO's Ankara Test: Managing Europe's Security as America Steps Back

By Mark Webber & Stefan Wolff

Jul 7 • Stefan Wolff

European Strategic Autonomy

The Ambition Is Clear, the Coordination Is Not

Jun 27 • Stefan Wolff

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