Israeli forces executed a hostage-rescue operation in Nuseirat, central Gaza. The Israeli operation was widely reported to have utilized ...

The Japan-India-Africa Business Forum, held on February 26, 2025, marked a strategic step in strengthening the India-Japan ...

Three months on, the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff spree in April 2025 continue to reverberate across East Asia. The United States ...

Bottom Line Chinese and Indian interest in Nepal’s immense hydropower potential has made it a focal point of geopolitical competition. Political instability, bureaucratic red tape, and underdeveloped ...

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Bottom Line Lao PDR envisions becoming the “Battery of Southeast Asia” by exporting hydropower to neighboring countries through the regional power grid designed to reach ASEAN’s goal of net-zero ...

Grand strategy is a phrase that evokes instant and easy associations. The term immediately evokes a cast of historical actors and events: Thucydides and The Peloponnesian War, Bismarck’s Realpolitik, ...

American officials are increasingly concerned about China’s growing power and assertiveness. While spy balloons over the continental United States may be the current crisis, Washington should stay ...

The term “post-colonial” has presented a seminal problem for historians of the 20 th century Middle East. As this essay will detail, debates over the term have provided an important axis around which ...

Gray, it seems, is the new black. The concept of “gray zone” conflict has generated significant attention and controversy recently, within both the U.S.

Translating broad strategic guidance into workable strategies and sustainable policies requires both an assessment of the international security environment as well as an analysis of what the domestic ...

Contracting Russian private military companies, whether Wagner or its successor organization, the Africa Corps, is likely to lead to a series of unintended consequences for client states. In addition ...