Australia isn’t prepared for conflict unless it can build and defend the will to fight. The national civil preparedness and resilience inquiry, adopted in July, is an opportunity to begin that conversation. The inquiry’s terms ...

If the need to electrify Australian mining wasn’t clear before the 2026 Iran crisis, it is now. The industry must stop relying on imported diesel and advance towards energy security. The diesel fuel price shock ...

Casual observers of Venezuelan politics might have assumed that the US capture and removal of former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro in January would guarantee the dismantling of his authoritarian regime and a rupture with Beijing. ...

Retaliation. U.S. Central Command said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attacks on a U.S. Navy warship. Four of the Iranian vessels were attacked in the Gulf of Oman and another near Kharg Island…

Washington’s transition from a post-World War II order to one that offloads security responsibility to regional partners puts Europe in a difficult situation. Despite decades of institutional development, the continent faces formidable chal…

Investing in Greenland. At a meeting with Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the European Union will invest 200 million euros ($232 million) in Greenland’s inf…

Reflecting on 25 years since the September 11 terror attacks, RAND experts answer questions about protecting soft targets, the role of the TSA, mitigating risks from emerging technologies, and more.

As AI advances, the risk of engineered viral bioweapons is growing. The window to prepare is now—by building a layered, resilient system of defense.

Ukraine’s military has changed substantially since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Will its next evolution be shaped by traditionalists or technologists?

Domestic politics constrains Berlin’s ability to respond to an attempted drone attack. Domestic politics constrains Berlin’s ability to respond to an attempted drone attack.

The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East. The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.

A far-right state election victory is ushering in the end of the country’s postwar political system. A far-right state election victory is ushering in the end of the country’s postwar political system.

Domestic politics constrains Berlin’s ability to respond to an attempted drone attack. Domestic politics constrains Berlin’s ability to respond to an attempted drone attack.

The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East. The president’s war on the “deep state” led directly to his debacle in the Middle East.

A far-right state election victory is ushering in the end of the country’s postwar political system. A far-right state election victory is ushering in the end of the country’s postwar political system.

In this episode, panelists from CFR’s Climate Realism Initiative discuss Financing the Missing Middle , a collection of policies and strategies to help bridge the gap in private funding that inhibits energy innovation in the United States. …

In this episode, Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses lessons from the 1929 Wall Street crash, followed by a panel discussion on the present-day risk of a bubble, and how policymakers should respond. Host: Gillian Tett , Columnist and Member of the…

In this episode, Margaret Woolley Busse discusses the regulatory environment for artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States, with particular focus on its implications at the state and local level. She is joined by Adam Segal, who ass…

Electro vs. Petro? Think Synergy Beyond Energy! Lately, pundits have increasingly relied on an ‘electro‑state vs. petro‑state’ frame to describe the post‑Iran-war energy–industrial realignment and its implications for the global…

The existence of democracies in human civilisations is not something that came about by accident or is naturally occurring in most parts of the globe. On many occasions, Ancient Greek civilisations who established complex and meaningful mea…

The condition of Hindu minorities in Pakistan has remained a subject of concern for human rights organizations, minority-rights advocates, journalists, and international observers for decades. Issues including religious discrimination, forc…

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Whatever the trade court decides, the region’s 15 million forced labourers need due diligence law, not tariffs.

A Chinese cubesat launch for Thailand offers a case study in the contest over Southeast Asia’s potential US$100 billion space economy.

Nuclear states have every reason to make a negative security assurance legally binding, yet none will act.