Tag: geopolitics

It has taken Germany a frustratingly long six months from the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government to a snap election to Tuesday’s swearing-in of Friedrich Merz as Scholz’s successor. ...

During his first official visit to Asia in March, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a strong message to Washington’s allies and partners. “What the Trump administration will do … ...

Sweden, Norway, and Lithuania will team up to buy hundreds of soon-to-be-manufactured CV90 combat vehicles, Sweden’s prime minister announced late last month. Economies of scale matter in the military—but these ...

On March 30, a German start-up launched a rocket designed to place small satellites into orbit from Europe. Taking off from Norway’s Andøya spaceport above the Arctic Circle, it was ...

This could be the most volatile geopolitical moment in the Indo-Pacific since World War II. Extreme uncertainty surrounding the Trump administration’s policies is prompting U.S. allies and partners alike to ...

On March 21, Armenia’s land border with Turkey, closed since 1993 amid their decades-long diplomatic rupture, opened temporarily to allow through Armenian humanitarian aid trucks delivering goods to Syria through ...

“Nobody has ever seen anything like it,” U.S. President Donald Trump is fond of saying about his supercharged agenda of upending the U.S. government and intimidating his political enemies at ...

Move over, Cuba—there are new islands in town. While the prospect of a nuclear crisis over Taiwan remains a genuine and dangerous possibility, China’s activities around the Aleutian Islands should ...

During U.S. President Donald Trump’s first term, he invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the United States and held a massive rally in Houston, Texas, with considerable fanfare. In turn, Modi hosted ...

For people in Washington who focus on Iran and can tune out the rest of the Trump-induced chaos, the city feels kind of like it did a decade ago when ...