Tag: geopolitics

If geography is destiny, then nowhere is this equation more relentless than at the subcontinent’s northwestern frontier. Since the partition of British India in 1947, two patterns have held steady: ...

A flurry of summit meetings assembled leaders from the Indo-Pacific last week, from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo to Gyeongju. But questions linger over one other summit meeting that was planned ...

For decades, the United States’ relationship with Cambodia has been among the most fraught across Southeast Asia, a region where the U.S.-China great power rivalry is fast intensifying. In the ...

Europe’s security architecture is being remade in real time. Russia’s war against Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to office has challenged the basic premises on which European security ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Southeast Asia Brief. The highlights this week: ASEAN’s summit makes Kuala Lumpur a geopolitical hub, Laos considers cutting power to crypto miners, a royal baby is ...

There has been an eerie similarity to recent developments in South Asia. The Generation Z-led protest movement that ousted Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli in Nepal in September echoes the ...

What prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine? Is it part of a wider war with the West—whatever “West” means these days? And how does Russia fight this conflict? ...

The tenuous trade truce between Washington and Beijing has collapsed. What lies ahead is less a conventional trade war and more of a sustained struggle in which both powers codify ...

Another year, another failed attempt. U.S. President Donald Trump’s inability to secure this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was predictable. The odds that he will ever win the prize remain slim. ...

Exactly two years ago, on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas crossed into Israel and killed around 1,200 people. It was an awful, inhumane attack. But that day also triggered a chain ...