Cambridge Central Asia Forum. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and great power competition in Asia. He received his PhD in development studies from Cambridge, has held ...

This week Pope Leo XIV released his first major encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. While a new pope’s first encyclical is typically devoted to broad questions of faith and human dignity, Leo has instead ...

EU governments seek more fiscal flexibility for defence and energy, as calls grow for Eurobonds. But integrating fragmented ...

For Europeans facing a more aggressive Russia and a less reliable US, Munich’s booming defence startups show how quickly war ...

European integration, and institutional reform in the Western Balkans at the University of Lausanne. Her work bridges academia and policy analysis, focusing on EU conditionality, environmental ...

Every day, the Ukraine Battlefield update newsletter offers a clear look at how the war is unfolding on the ground. Subscribe ...

On 1 July this year, Ireland takes the rotating EU presidency and agenda powers on the crown jewels of EU tech laws: "That ...

As Russian commanders argue how to keep supplies flowing to Crimea, Ukrainian drone crews are turning the only safe land ...

On 19 May 2026, the European Commission opened a targeted consultation on the draft guidelines for classifying high-risk AI ...

Most will see the maritime bill as legal codification of regional assertiveness, but it's also a lot more: A way of ...

Next time you hear an EU commissioner say the AI Act needs to be 'simplified', the honest translation is: a company asked them to do that, and they said yes.

The disorderly US withdrawal from Nato is denting defence and deterrence and creating a vacuum in command. Without an overall ...