In this week’s episode of Independent Thinking, our experts discuss how African states are increasing their leverage on the ...

Explore how the UK and EU can strengthen their industrial and technological competitiveness in response to China’s scale, ...

This conference convenes leading policymakers, scholars, and public intellectuals to explore the forces likely to shape the ...

Please join us as the 2026 Chatham House Prize is awarded to the women of Afghanistan, recognising their courage, resilience and determination in the face of systematic gender persecution.

Special Advisor to the Director and Chief Executive, Director's Office The decision by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to call a snap election is a risky move, but he will have felt he had little choice.

Americans go to the polls on 3 November to elect a third of the US Senate and all the House of Representatives. The Republicans currently have majorities in both chambers of Congress. But their ...

Arab Gulf countries like UAE (which is also a member of the Board of Peace) are key providers of humanitarian aid to Gaza. In fact, UAE aid accounts for 46 per cent of global assistance. But what is ...

Image — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks about the trade dispute with the United States at the Davie Shipyard in Levis, Quebec, Canada on 24 August 2026. Photo by ANDREJ IVANOV / AFP via ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD)’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt’s election is a historic breakthrough and, without doubt, a turning point in German democracy. Since 1945 no party labelled extreme right ...

Senior Research Fellow for China and the World, Asia-Pacific Programme China’s robotics industry has been making headlines again. Videos of humanoid robots running, jumping and boxing at Beijing’s ...

A worrying feature of the next big financial crisis is that we may lack a dominant power able and willing to stabilise the international economic order. That would certainly have been the view of the ...

This initiative examines the intersections of geopolitics, security, global governance of mineral supply chains and the economics of mining and manufacturing. Image — Earth and minerals are loaded ...