Arquivos de 25 ago 2026

Donald Trump has Pyongyang on his mind. In recent months, the U.S. president has made comments to the media suggesting he is in communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In an August 17 Truth Social post, for instance, Trump announced that the United States would scale back joint military drills with South Korea. […]

How AI is reshaping influence operations in America.

Why the baby bust is making the world more unequal.

For Pakistan, the question is not whether it should involve itself in the Middle East. Energy dependence, remittances, geography, defence relationships and domestic security have largely made that decision for it. Nor is neutrality, in its older sense, entirely available. The harder question is whether Pakistan can remain connected without becoming entrapped, Javairyah Aatif writes.

Having ceased to be the centre of world politics, Europe remains at its centre. Despite the continent’s key importance within world affairs, Europe’s real sovereignty is far lower than that of even the Latin American countries most defenceless against the US. The existence of such a paradox seems truly dangerous, believes Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director […]

In December, it will be five years since Russia’s famous “ultimatum” to the collective West. It is often described as the final impulse that set the countdown running to the start of the special military operation and to the crisis in relations between Moscow and the Western capitals that followed. Was there ever a real […]