Riyadh is at a crossroads, grappling with domestic pressures, regional ambitions, and global geopolitical trends.
Riyadh is at a crossroads, grappling with domestic pressures, regional ambitions, and global geopolitical trends.
The EU has vowed to be more receptive of its partners’ needs and concerns. To ensure the “listening to others” mantra does not become a performative quick fix, the union must clarify how this commitment fits with its desire to exert geopolitical power.
Ukraine, the United States, NATO, and Russia each must come away from the negotiations with something of value—regarding security, economics, and the oh-so-important political coin, saving face.
The agency of MENA states and nonstate actors and their multilayered interactions with the United States, China, Russia, and the EU have helped shape the complex outcomes of the great power competition.
Support for President-elect Donald Trump is strong in India. In the hometown of Kamala Harris’ mother, Indian men say they believe Trump will bring peace.
A conversation about the prospects for replicating the Israel-Hezbollah truce with one in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
Donald Trump’s victory underscores the need for the EU to rethink its political economic model. As it adapts its policies, the union must recognize the trade-offs between its quest for economic security and its global identity as a champion of the rules-based order.