Indonesia joined BRICS without publishing a roadmap. Without benchmarks, summit visibility risks substituting for the strategy that makes it pay.

Thailand, Brazil and Colombia chose the Gripen over US fighters. The reason is not price or stealth, but who keeps a veto over the software.

India now builds 65% of its own military hardware, and is pressing Moscow for technology transfer rather than finished weapons. The leverage has shifted.

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ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...

Peacemaking has shifted toward military capacity at the expense of universalism, but peace cannot be reduced to the absence ...

The Trump administration’s Venezuela oil deal grants North American Blue Energy Partners, a private Venezuelan producer, ...

Putin’s visit to Iturup underscores how fundamentally Japan–Russia relations have changed since the outbreak of the war in ...

CENTO's failure shows why the US, Japan, and South Korea need contingency plans, mission-specific drills, and direct links, ...

Stablecoins, Monero payments, and state-backed CBDCs are tools of statecraft. How tech firms became players in the political economy of digital money.

Islamabad sells itself as the indispensable mediator in the Iran war. Ferrying Chinese air-defense systems to Tehran is hard ...