Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire in principle. But conflicts often intensify when a pause in fighting is being negotiated.

With China’s large trade surplus likely to remain intact and the Trump administration aiming to turn the US trade deficit ...

Anxieties over US threats to stop protecting the continent are prompting various proposals to reinforce Europe’s deterrence posture – but many of these have serious flaws.

Beijing still intends to oppose Washington by presenting itself as a source of stability and a champion of the Global South.

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The Argentinian president’s radical programme has support from Elon Musk among others – but its success has come at a high ...

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Impeachment proceedings against Yoon Suk Yeol mean a pause on the South Korean president’s effective foreign policy and ...

A new order is emerging in the Middle East. For decades, Iran wielded influence across the region by cultivating a network of proxies that created instability in several Arab countries, from Lebanon ...

Kalaallit Nunaat, more commonly known as Greenland, has always belonged to the Inuit. Its history, however, is often told by outsiders – Vikings, missionaries and colonial powers. For millennia before ...

Carl Miller: For the past 15 years, platforms have largely relied on voluntary enforcement and protection measures to address online harms. That created a messy equilibrium in which platforms have ...