Note: this is an opinion piece Peru has removed yet another president. Amid the salsa music of a London theatre, I found myself asking the question Mario Vargas Llosa asked decades ago: ¿en qué momento se jodió el Perú? — at what moment did Peru go wrong? Last night I was standing in a London theatre, packed shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of Venezuelans and other Latinos, waiting for Danny Ocean to take the stage. The queue outside had already felt like a reunion — slang

A few years ago, I spoke at a biometrics symposium in Florida. In my lecture, I argued that the United States should avoid encouraging the weaponization of algorithms - and the weaponization of any consumer technology more broadly - because the economy of the United States is dependent upon technology and computing infrastructure more so than any other economy in the world...

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