The rush to defend Denmark from American pressure over Greenland has produced a convenient narrative: bullying superpower ...

Vietnam is undertaking a dramatic clean energy transition policy for its electricity sector. The endeavor is driven by two complementary analyses: (1) growth and dependence on foreign fuels are the ...

The first Secretary-General of the United Nations, Trygve Lie of Norway, famously described his role as “the most impossible job in the world”—an assessment his eight successors have never seriously ...

The South China Sea is a major flashpoint that could escalate into the next regional war, as various Asian countries and world powers rely on maritime shipping, resources, and security for their ...

As a fleet of U.S. warships assembled in the Caribbean for counternarcotics operations in September, Nicolás Maduro—Venezuela’s autocrat and serial election-stealer—addressed Xi Jinping in a press ...

On October 31, 2025, Christos Rozakis, former Greek Deputy Foreign Minister, stated that “Turkey and Greece came very close to an agreement over the Aegean in 2003.” Türkiye would accept a 12-nautical ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO), once the keystone of the postwar trading order, now faces an existential crisis. The pillars that long sustained it—binding rules, impartial dispute settlement, and ...

A recent working paper from a team of experts at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) noted that, “Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring distinguishes itself from others by its complexity due to a ...

When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan on April 3, 2024, the world’s most advanced semiconductor fabrication plants temporarily halted production. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ...

The earliest formal designation of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) as a distinct group of developing countries with their own set of specific challenges occurred in 1992 at the UN Conference on ...

The emergence of China as an international lender has changed the landscape of global development finance. Since the early 2000s, the Chinese government and its state-owned banks have provided record ...

On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, the administration launched a concerted attack on the U.S. foreign aid framework, [1] sending shockwaves through the global humanitarian landscape.