Each month, Dr. Indra Ekmanis writes a monthly roundup highlighting major political, cultural, and economic events in Estonia ...

Mariia Vladymyrova (University of Copenhagen) discusses the Northern Sea Route (NSR) legal regime as an exemplary instance of ...

CEO at SBM Intelligence, the geopolitical risk advisory firm he joined at its 2013 founding. He holds an MA in Strategy and International Security from the University of Hull and an MSc in Computer ...

Dr. Kabir Adamu is a leading expert in security risk management, intelligence, and national security solutions. As the ...

James Barnett is a research fellow at Hudson Institute. He specializes in African security and politics and is co-editor of a Hudson journal, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, with Senior Fellow ...

The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI)'s Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare hosted a special one-day conference dedicated ...

The 12-Day War between Iran and Israel in June 2025 exposed critical weaknesses in the Islamic Republic’s military, strategic, and ideological frameworks, marking a turning point for the regime. The ...

While international attention often centers on China’s latest foundation models or its constrained access to high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips, these headlines obscure the broader ...

China has been a major investor and trade partner in Central Asia for some twenty-five years. For the first half of those years, Beijing was focused on oil and natural gas pipelines and roads and ...

Three months on, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff spree in April 2025 continue to reverberate across East Asia. The United States imposed high tariff rates across the region, ...

This month, we’re zeroing in on a core tension in US strategy toward China: how to strike the right balance between deterrence and reassurance. As Washington strengthens military postures, deepens ...

Contrary to the popular assessments of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership, Chinese and Russian national interests primarily converge in the Asia Pacific and Arctic, not in Europe and Ukraine. For ...