The war between Iran and the United States has placed Russia in a classic strategic trap — a zugzwang, the chess term for a position in which every available move makes a player’s situation worse.

War has broken out in the Middle East once again, but this time the writing on the wall brings an unusually ominous message. Although the Third Gulf War is unlikely to be the last showdown between ...

The Ukraine war demonstrated how quickly neutral corners of global financial infrastructure can devolve into levers of geoeconomic influence. The lesson is not lost on Europe, but balances still must ...

The impacts of Strait of Hormuz closure are not evenly distributed, at least in the short-term. But the economic pain becomes ...

Turkey’s dealmaking in Somalia over the past decade tends to be assessed in isolation. But when the whole picture is ...

With a reported range of 400 km, China’s PL-17 air-to-air missile puts enemy AWACS and ISR platforms in play, potentially ...

EU states have maneuvered to minimize the fallout from a war they were not consulted on. Yet two weeks on, they’re being ...

US-Israeli strikes have begun targeting Iran’s financial infrastructure to degrade regime resiliency, but the strategy is not ...

The expansion of Chinese PMSCs signals a structural transformation in how security is bought, sold, and aligned with state interests across the globe.

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