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Mineral-producing nations are turning the shortcomings of the G7 and BRICS into bargaining power. Bundles of copper on rail wagons at the New Kapiri Mposhi train station in Kapiri Mposhi, Zambia. The ...

United States President Donald Trump’s May 2026 visit to Beijing was neither a diplomatic triumph nor a clean end to the trade war his first administration launched nearly a decade ago. Instead, it ...

Over the past few months, the lawsuit Elon Musk filed against OpenAI gave the public a rare glimpse into the engine room of the company that, more than any other, defined the new artificial ...

UK politics will be reshaped by identity, demographics, legal paralysis and fiscal strain, shifting voters into nationalist, cosmopolitan and liberal blocs. British politics is once again in visible ...

Armenia’s warming relations with Europe, Turkiye and Azerbaijan are both a product and a driver of fading Russian influence in the South Caucasus. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (right) ...

Mali’s escalating crisis reveals how state failure, insurgency and resource competition increasingly intertwine. On May 21, 2026, the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C., hosted a panel entitled “A ...

This is the third installment in a GIS series on spacepower. Read about great power competition and China’s orbital ambitions. Grand strategy works by keeping a state’s political purpose aligned with ...

The economic legacy of the past few years is mixed. The annual global gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate may hold steady at about 3 percent, yet the United States’ economy is slowing, the ...

This report is the second in a GIS series on spacepower. The first can be found here and part three can be found here. China’s ambitions in space are not isolated technological projects, but ...

AI-driven automation has revived calls for UBI, yet resource limits, inflation risks and mixed human responses challenge its feasibility and benefits. May 23, 2022, Berlin, Germany: A poster ...

U.S. impatience with NATO burden-sharing and its pivot to the Indo-Pacific is driving NATO 3.0. June 10, 2026, Pabrade, Lithuania: German soldiers prepare for Freedom Shield 2026, the inaugural ...