The Syrian state could have collapsed as early as 2015. It held out for another nine years thanks to Russian military ...

A small airport has been operating outside of the purview of the Indonesian state since 2019, raising thorny questions about ...

Messaging surrounding Russia’s latest failed test launch of its RS-28 “Sarmat” suggests that this ‘peerless’ next-generation ...

This week we cover missile deployments near Taiwan, a brewing water crisis in Europe along with a far more advanced one in ...

Opportunities for ASEAN countries to capture semiconductor back-end, EV battery manufacturing, and higher-value electronics ...

The Islamic Republic has proved, over four and a half decades, that it can survive war, sanctions, isolation, and cycles of ...

Copper now sits at the center of a fast-tightening web of electrification, digital infrastructure, and geopolitical tension.

For Mauritania, the Nigeria–Morocco Gas Pipeline delivers option value through minimal cost, maximum flexibility, and ...

Russia’s mass deployment of incarcerated prisoners to the frontlines of Ukraine makes for good economics if not ethics. But ...

Despite their relative infancy, the universe of digital currencies is already increasingly plural and complex as the natural result of divergent evolution. Regarding their governance structures, the ...

Vietnam may be the latest Southeast Asian country forced into a harsh reckoning, but it will not be the last. From Bangkok’s ...

This week we cover the corruption scandal in Ukraine which triggered the latest round of ongoing peace efforts, new suspected ...