Afghanistan’s opium ban cut cultivation by 96%. Its effects on global narcotics markets, and on criminal revenues and profits, are far less certain.
Canada’s defense spending surge targets 125,000 new jobs by 2035. Unmanned systems, not autos, may be the industry that replaces what tariffs took.
As the border has grown increasingly unstable, Bangladesh now faces three worsening challenges involving the Arakan Army: Alongside the existing 1.5 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Rohingya ...
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.
Indonesia joined BRICS without publishing a roadmap. Without benchmarks, summit visibility risks substituting for the strategy that makes it pay.
ASEAN sent five members to the 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi. The cost may be the strategic ambiguity that made the bloc ...
India now builds 65% of its own military hardware, and is pressing Moscow for technology transfer rather than finished weapons. The leverage has shifted.
Peacemaking has shifted toward military capacity at the expense of universalism, but peace cannot be reduced to the absence ...
Russia's Rassvet constellation is not failing in orbit, despite widespread reports. But Soyuz launch rates put its 292 ...
When, a few months ago, I first argued that the idea of Canadian accession to the European Union was not a mere speculative exercise but rather a possibility coherent with the open structure of ...
In March, Norway’s defense minister Tore O. Sandvik made an unusually confident claim that “we don’t lose those submarines,” when describing NATO’s ability to track Russian submarines leaving the Kola ...
Pakistan needs to move beyond emphasizing its strategic location and demonstrate what that position can actually offer.