As statistics authorities across the globe start to publish inflation data for the month of April, the scale of the Hormuz ...

Image — This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 26 December 2025 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting major munitions industry ...

Increasing global tensions have led some experts to suggest that formal control of nuclear weapons is no longer feasible. Some strategists in nuclear weapons states are even questioning whether it is ...

Image — France's President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) sign an agreement at the Villacoublay air base near Paris on 17 November 2025. Photo by CHRISTOPHE ...

The war killed more than 100,000 people, and its underlying sectarian divisions are still far from resolved. November marks the anniversary of the 1995 Dayton Peace Accord, an agreement thrashed out ...

The dominance of the US and China in AI development poses a significant conundrum for the rest of the world. For middle powers, the establishment of ‘sovereign AI’ strategies, which allow a country to ...

President Donald Trump travels to Beijing this week with the US’s alliance structure under enormous strain. Washington has fewer partners at its side, and a weaker hand to play. It doesn’t have to be ...

Foreign aid cuts present security and geopolitical challenges for the UK. To remain influential in this new era of aid scarcity, the UK must cooperate with European allies and other donors to develop ...

The evolution of the Pepe the Frog meme provides a case study of how online meme culture can appropriate non-political imagery, codify it and redeploy it, sometimes for extreme political purposes.

Explaining the link between heatwaves and climate change, the impacts of extreme heat, and what governments and cities are doing to adapt. Image — Residents are collecting drinking water from a tanker ...

There are four possible outcomes for Russia’s war on Ukraine: ‘long war’, ‘frozen conflict’, ‘victory for Ukraine’, and ‘defeat for Ukraine’. This paper outlines how these scenarios may take shape, ...

Image — The first meeting of the Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 7 June 2018. Photo by Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Kingdom Council / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. The ...