Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev addressed the 8th Congress of the New Azerbaijan Party (YAP) in Baku on Friday, the first party congress convened since

Oil inventories in western countries have been exhausted as a result of the Iran war, the boss of the world’s largest independent oil trader said, warning that fuel markets are likely to remain tight ...

The melting Arctic is fundamentally reshaping global geopolitics, transforming what was once a frozen barrier protecting the Eurasian Heartland into a new arena of strategic competition between Russia

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Explore insights on democracy with Dr. Tamara Cofman Wittes as she discusses global challenges and resilience in democratic systems.

The Indian #transoceanic region ties together areas of the world the State and Pentagon maps divide and separate …

But it is to the region’s advantage that it is not a unified supranational power like the EU Read more at The Business Times.

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Explore insights on democracy with Dr. Tamara Cofman Wittes as she discusses global challenges and resilience in democratic systems.

In this week's Asia Times Global Risk-Reward Monitor, James Davis on Russia's expectation of a prolonged rupture with Europe ... new steps taken to place European corporate assets in Russia under Krem...

Some further thoughts on #FORTRESS America ... First, it seems to draw on themes I've seen reflected in papers and presentations from students at the U.S. Naval War College dealing with resiliency, e...

Iraq marks national 'Sovereignty Days' as US troops depart, but must navigate risks of new security landscape.

The Russo-Ukrainian War, if dated to Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, is the longest running conflict in Europe since the French Revolutionary and

For those who follow Rosneft and its operations around the world, Essar is a familiar name. Rosneft purchased Essar Oil (rebranded as Naraya Oil) and has supplied a good deal of the crude used by Indi...

The Essar Group's commitment to build a new steel plant in Iowa and to source it from Mesabi Metallics mines in Minnesota is a test of whether the U.S. government's geoeconomic tools--the $10 billion ...

Alaska LNG project a way to connect #geoeconomic imperatives (provide new security energy route to South Korea reinforcing security and trade ties with the U.S., provide alternatives to increasingly u...

Yet politicians on both sides of the aisle, as well as much of the national security establishment, do not understand how digital currencies work and are

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In 2008, the US stock market was worth $3 trillion more than the combined European stock market; in 2023, the gap was $34 trillion. This column argues that the valuation gap is not driven by differenc...

While Seoul has traditionally played things safe on the issue, that discretion is becoming harder to sustain.

President Donald Trump rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington, greeting him in person at Joint Base

Not shown are the land routes that are taking on more, as well as the seasonal Arctic routes, especially with the #Vostok project now begin to ship to Asian customers ...

Show the importance and durability of the various trade #roundabout schemes to get around tariffs, sanctions and other barriers ...

So, two trends to consider ... 1) Progress on a U.S.-China trade deal that would lower tariffs on a wide variety of consumer goods. Important for the Trump administration due to growing Republican co...

It is striking, reading Vladimir Norov's summary of the U.S.-China summit, how much both sides seem to echo what the #Mayflower_Group (formally, the dialogue for a “Sustainable Bipartisan U.S. Strateg...

By Patricia Zengerle and Mike Stone WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The Trump administration has made legally binding commitments to spend almost all of the $400 million Congress approved for military...

James Davis, for this week's Asia Times Global Risk-Reward Monitor, on the hardening attitudes in the Kremlin and the growing realization that Trump "can't deliver." "Trump has shown little willingn...

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The Ukrainian president remains skeptical Russia will takes steps to de-escalate.

Explore the impact of AI on global security and warfare in this new age of technological threats and challenges.

Nikolas Gvosdev, a national security fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and professor at the U.S. Naval War College, and speaking on his own behalf, joins Bill Bartholomew to examine how ...

I always enjoy taking part in Leadership Rhode Island's Defense Day, and to be able to help connect global trends in international security with developments at our #doorstep here in Rhode Island. It ...

As we monitor Duma election results in Russia it does seem that the dual recruitment strategy James Davis has been tracking will produce some results: a cadre of loyalist veterans especially in United...

Keep an eye on what happens Sunday in Germany--according to Diego Faßnacht, CFA 🇵🇦 writing in Asia Times. Depending on how elections go in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, embattled chancell...

So some highlights of the Waverly Heights talk: —characterized the time we are living in as the birthpangs of the #technostrategic era; —our national security system remains geared to reacting to cr...

Not seeing any sort of signing statement or other remarks from President Trump after signing the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 into law indicating any thoughts on what he i...

Central Asia is shifting from separate projects to an integrated Eurasian network linking China, Central Asia, the Caspian, the Caucasus, Europe and South Asia The EDB estimates 114 projects in Centr...