Increased alignment and overlap between local and regional rivalries has increased the willingness of actors to take assertive action.
Trump’s break with traditional diplomatic norms is a potential pivot point where new expectations and possibilities for state behaviour may emerge.
As Trump’s MAGA-themed US retreats from global leadership, it risks ceding geopolitical ground to China and descending into domestic instability.
Europe’s strategy in the Indo-Pacific can and should be defined as a strategically ambiguous deterrent.
Iconic leaders are products of structural rupture – emerging from an order that marginalized certain states and communities and finding expression through political agency.
New modes of political experimentation in African states may have important lessons for those seeking to find ways to address the democratic malaise within Western societies.
Trump’s preference for bilateral agreements threatens to weaken regional unity on critical issues such as climate change, inequality, poverty, and organized crime.
Scholarship engaging the raciality of capitalism, and feminist approaches, are well-equipped to understand antagonistic notions and practices of security.
Japanese remilitarization will benefit the people of Japan and offer be a much-needed counterbalance in the Indo-Pacific.
Overdependence on any single actor will leave Europe vulnerable to external pressures.
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