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.

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

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 ...

For a long time, Pakistan has referred to itself as a country centered between regions. This idea appears frequently in diplomatic speeches, policy papers, and discussions of regional connectivity.

If the non-proliferation regime is to survive its present crisis, credible non-nuclear middle powers must move from supporting participants to agenda-setters.

The resilience of Iran’s economy is not an anomaly of internal fortitude, but a direct reflection of Beijing’s willingness to act as its ultimate economic guarantor.

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