Journalism is a profession that most people admire, respect, and fear at the same time. Scrutiny and judgement are at the centre. Those who can speak to citizens with clarity are met with bouquets and messages of admiration, as well as critiques and threats from millions. As a young, aspiring journalist, I was in awe of Clarissa Ward’s work. Seeing her on my screen, from Damascus to Ukraine and Yemen, filled me with a fierce curiosity and admiration for a job that still feels

China and Russia have deepened their strategic partnership since 2022, driven by a shared opposition to the US-led global order. The partnership has weathered geopolitical headwinds, with trade soaring and joint diplomatic statements emphasising a “no limits” relationship. Despite asymmetries, their coordinated efforts span multilateral platforms, energy, and military affairs. Persistent tensions and divergent regional ambitions remain, but common grievances ensure the partne

Introduction From the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the early 21 st  century, Britain maintained a ‘Splendid Isolation’ stance, deliberately avoiding formal alliances with other significant European powers of that time. [1]  Preferring to act as a balancer, this was done to preserve diplomatic flexibility and deter aggression arising from being bound to alliances. First coined by Eric Eisenberg in the 1980s, ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ is a tool for states to navigate complex geopo

On the morning of December 8, 2024, the world woke up in shock and disbelief as the latest news from Damascus arrived. In only eleven days, the rebel jihadist forces of Hayat Tayir al Sham (HTS) successfully concluded their assault on Damascus, forcing Assad to flee towards Moscow. What would become a new international figure, an Islamist under the fighting name of Abu Mohammed al-Joulani, marched on the empty presidential palace as the allied forces were liberating the priso

“The decision we will make for our country on 2 December is a choice between the past and the future, between the habits and fears of the past, and the demands and opportunities of the future.” (Gough Whitlam, November 1972)[1]

The Sino-Soviet Split was the culmination of ideological tensions between the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Chairman Mao Zedong, having cut ties with the USSR, embarked on a path towards establishing China as the centre of international communism. This paper assesses the impact of the Sino-Soviet split on China’s strategic thinking and doctrinal development, focusing primarily on the 1960s. The split radically changed ho

Before one can delve into whether or not the Putin’s Regime’s foreign policy decisions are more informed by ideology or informed by pragmatism, one must first define what “ideological” and what “pragmatism” mean. In this context, one can define ideological actions as actions based around “a set of closely related beliefs or ideas, or even attitudes, characteristic of a group or community.”

The trajectory of the liberal order from its theoretical inception in Adam Smith to its triumphant universalised realisation in the post Cold War order has been paralleled by a developing discourse concerning the inherent capability of economic coercion embedded in foreign trade relations.

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This paper will review the unlawful decolonisation process concerning the 2019 ICJ Judgement on the Legal Consequence of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965. The case study observes that the 1965 agreement did not comply with the territorial integrity of the Chagos Archipelago....

1914 witnessed the outbreak of the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, a global conflict resulting in seismic international consequences that remain felt to the present....

I'm Judit Pach. I'm the Hungarian ambassador to Singapore and also to Brunei Darussalam and Hungary’s governor to the Asia-Europe Foundation

When the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle flag was lowered for the last time off the Kremlin and was superseded by the Russian white,...

An interview with Mr. Oktavianto Pasaribu, Deputy Director of the International Labour Organization in Southeast Asia.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 sent shockwaves through Europe...

“The idea that BRICS countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand by and watch is OVER,” Trump stated, addressing a...

The United Nations Peacekeeping missions are essential for helping countries ‘navigate the path from conflict to peace’

Climate displacement is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing issues of international law, cultural rights, meteorological factors...

Possessing the world’s most populated countries and some of the oldest civilizations, Eastern Asia, Northeast, and Southeast Asia have...

When you focus on Trump’s foreign policy you will notice that it has protectionism and hawkish views on China as its main tenets.  As...