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Protecting the freedom of navigation and overflight across the Indo-Pacific remains a shared security and commercial interest for both the United States and Japan. Yet, Beijing’s continued unlawful ...

Christopher Solomon chronicles the evolution of Hayat Tahrir al Sham in Syria. HTS is a hardline group committed to replacing the Assad government with an Islamic state. As a fighting force, HTS has ...

Since achieving independence from Britain in 1948, Myanmar has experienced the world’s longest running civil war. Despite its exhortations as to being the country’s stabilizer, Myanmar’s military, ...

Finland’s shipyards have the capacity to produce icebreakers quickly and at a reasonable cost. It is estimated that, compared to US icebreaker production underway, the average Finnish icebreaker would ...

In the global competition for technological leadership and economic resilience, Southeast Asia is quickly emerging as a critical node. Anchored by countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore, the ...

Since its creation in December 1987, Hamas has invoked militant interpretations of Islam to spearhead a Sunni extremist movement committed to destroying Israel. Hamas distanced itself from the ...

On August 1, 1975, the Helsinki Final Act (also known as the Helsinki Accords) was signed by 35 countries. The Helsinki Final Act was the outcome of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in ...

A slow-motion crisis has been developing in the Nile Valley since the Ethiopian government announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile ten years ago. Even ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than a technological breakthrough—it is a transformative force shaping the future economy, security landscape, global power dynamics, and daily life. The US, along ...

Implications and Key Takeaways China’s success at diaspora mobilization remains largely limited, and rhetoric about a ‘whole-of-society’ threat is not just alarmist and distracting—it is ...

Brazil's presidency of the G20 has begun in earnest, with the country expecting to hold some 100 meetings throughout the year in different parts of the country. Besides Brazil's priority issues such ...