The threat of hybrid attacks from Iran and Russia means the UK should develop a force dedicated to protecting its bases and ...

Vladimir Putin always chooses his words carefully. If Russia faced a direct attack on Kaliningrad (its enclave on the Baltic ...

Nepal’s recovery from August’s catastrophic glacial flood will test the efficiency of the UN’s Fund for Responding to Loss ...

As statistics authorities across the globe start to publish inflation data for the month of April, the scale of the Hormuz inflation shock is slowly becoming visible. The US announced its Consumer ...

However, this plan for a ‘national conversation’ was already adopted by Starmer’s government in the Strategic Defence Review (SDR) of 2025. The conversation was to focus on the rationale for investing ...

Explore how the UK and EU can strengthen their industrial and technological competitiveness in response to China’s scale, ...

At the Munich Security Conference (MSC) – long a barometer of global security priorities – climate change is of reduced importance this year. While it features (albeit lightly) in the official ...

This weekend current and former employees of US AI laboratories and their leaders issued dire warnings of a near-term apocalypse at the hands of AI. Out-of-control AI development could mean ‘we could ...

In a joint statement issued on 6 February the Trump administration announced it had reached an agreement to lower tariffs on India. The agreement has reduced the reciprocal tariff on India from 25 per ...

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels’ capture of Yemen’s port city of Mocha means that Iran now effectively controls two crucial waterways in the region – the Bab al-Mandab Strait to the Red Sea and thus ...

The second of International Affairs’ centenary special issues – devised and guest-edited by Amrita Narlikar and Daniel W. Drezner – is a ‘how not to guide’ for international relations. Focusing on ...

The retreat of the United States from global health has left more than a funding gap; it has exposed the weakness of a system that leaned too heavily on a handful of donors. For decades, Washington ...