This paper draws from the knowledges and experiences of communities across Fiji and the Maldives to highlight that the most enduring forms of climate security are those already embedded in cultural pr...

This article is translated from the original published in Klassekampen on 29 September 2026 and is republished with permission. The private worries of a DeepSeek engineer strikes a chord with China’s young people. Imagine you’re good at knitting sweaters. You’ve mastered all sorts of advanced patterns, you know how to pick the right colours, and […]

This report critically assesses the institution building that has taken place in post-Assad Syria over the past several months. Taking the ‘Constitutional Declaration’ of March 2025 as a benchmark, it...

As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping prepare to meet in Washington, much of the attention will naturally focus on familiar issues: tariffs, rare earths, semiconductors, agricultural purchases, and the futur...

This paper discusses the moral dilemma facing German politicians and intellectuals today: which is the most ethical or responsible way to act for German decision makers facing the question of whether ...

The latest escalation in the Canada–US trade war illustrates a paradox of economic coercion: the stronger country can inflict greater immediate economic pain while still losing the broader political c...

This paper discusses important lessons for democratic decay held by India’s political parties. A Gen Z movement has brought Modi to heel but cannot slow India’s plunge into illiberalism under his watc...

As the Pacific prepares to host pre-COP31, the region has a unique opportunity to advance dialogue on peace and security through a Pacific-led climate-peace nexus. Here, the concept of cultural securi...

Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died sixty-five years ago this m...

Three scenes from the past week capture a growing divide in world politics. Chinese President Xi Jinping travelled to Kyrgyzstan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit and then to Egypt, whe...

This paper examines the disturbing and potentially ruinous effects of our crumbling global order on the spirit and substance of democracy, not only within the heartlands of the declining American empi...

Every discussion of climate finance in Afghanistan eventually collides with a question that is rarely asked out loud: should this country receive climate finance at all? Everything else—how the money ...

This policy brief examines the underfunding of peacebuilding and conflict prevention. The United Nations’ first Peacebuilding Overview, Building Peace in a Changing World: Investing in Peace When the ...

Australia’s politics has, in recent weeks, been marked by two parallel but vastly different controversies. The first centred on remarks made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a podcast appeara...

President Donald Trump’s latest threat of “economic warfare and isolation” against any country providing Iran with a lifeline has made one thing increasingly clear: the nearly six-month Iran war is no...

This article was first published by Hankyoreh on 18 August 2026 and is republished with permission Just as allies in the region must not “take America for granted,” the US mustn’t take them for grante...

This paper explores the critical role of framing in the design of dialogue and deliberative processes addressing complex, contentious and polarized issues. Drawing on theory and practitioner experienc...

This paper offers a framework of principles and practices to create deliberative dialogue and collaborative decision-making processes in polarized and conflict-affected contexts. It argues that addres...

The country’s education crisis is a global problem Gen Z has already passed the baton in India. After spotlighting the country’s broken public examinations through an unprecedented popular movement, i...

This article was first published by The Conversation on 27 July 2026 and is republished under Creatvie Commons licence. In the Torres Strait, sea levels are rising twice as fast as the global average....

This policy brief argues that the Pacific Islands region offers a distinct and instructive approach to thinking about the relationship between climate change and peace. Rather than emphasizing a ‘clim...

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The latest round of United States strikes on Iran appears to follow Donald Trump’s familiar negotiating method: threaten overwhelming force, demonstrate a willingness to escalate, and then offer the o...

A new trend is emerging in climate diplomacy: some of the most consequential conversations are happening in new, multi actor dialogues that sit alongside the formal calendar, and increasingly shape wh...

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, established in 2002 by the Rome Statute, is under pressure. The Trump administration no longer wants merely to ignore it, but to destroy it. In mid-July,...

This policy brief details APEC’s evolution, paying particular attention to the pivotal roles of Australia and Japan. From its inception, APEC’s primary focus on trade liberalisation always looked like...

This policy brief details APEC’s evolution, paying particular attention to the pivotal roles of Australia and Japan. From its inception, APEC’s primary focus on trade liberalisation always looked like...

This report argues that New Zealand’s reputation as one of the world’s most stable social democracies increasingly obscures a quieter democratic erosion, evident across four domains: collapsing instit...

Another change of guard in Downing Street has triggered a renewed bout of concern—and sniggers—over the fragility of British politics and its democracy. Not for the first time, as the country gets its...

The latest United States–Iran crisis is not simply about whether the Strait of Hormuz is ‘open’ or ‘closed’. Nor is it only about whether President Donald Trump can maintain a domestic political narra...

Political crises within major powers do not remain purely domestic affairs. In an interconnected world they affect alliance cohesion, financial stability, conflict deterrence and trust in internationa...

The US–Israel war on Iran, which erupted at the end of February, triggered a global energy crisis. More than a hundred days in, the parties signed an interim deal and markets have reacted positively, ...

The renewed attacks on commercial vessels in or near the Strait of Hormuz, followed almost immediately by new United States strikes on Iranian targets, show that the pause in the US–Iran conflict was ...

At the United Nations launch of the inaugural Peacebuilding Overview Report during Peacebuilding Week, one fig […]

Why worldviews matter for measuring adaptation success in the Blue Pacific and beyond Climate change adaptatio […]

The first round of negotiations between the United States and Iran on a final deal to end the war eventually t […]

In May 2026, China held the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, and Foreign Minister Wang Yi flew […]

The rotating one-month presidency of the UN Security Council fell to China once again in May 2026. As it had d […]

This report draws on experimentation to ask a grounded question: when peacebuilders and Youth, Peace, and Secu […]

Nearly four months into what was supposed to be a short sharp incursion, there appears to be no end in sight e […]

The good news—and indeed almost the only good news regarding the wars against Ukraine and Iran—is that major p […]

In June 2026, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, made an important argument. In his essay Policy […]

This weekend witnessed a cockroach infestation like never before in history. Hundreds of people braved New Del […]

This report argues that a ‘narco-mineral complex’ is emerging in parts of the Amazon Basin, linking illegal mi […]

This article was first published by Hankyoreh on 1 June 2026 and is republished with permission. It’s time tha […]

This report examines how currently deployed conventional strike systems affect US–China–Russia strategic stabi […]

This report argues that the China–US relationship is best understood through evolving structural mechanisms th […]

Although Japan and the People’s Republic of China normalized diplomatic relations in September 1972, current J […]

The joint declaration issued by Russia and China on 20 May, Joint Declaration of the Russian Federation and th […]