As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears its fourth year, Russia has entered a new phase of permanent mobilization. What began as a military campaign has evolved into a system of governance that merges fiscal, financial, and industrial power under the logic of war. The Kremlin is managing an economy engineered for resilience, discipline, and control.
Dubbed the continent of the future, Africa represents boundless opportunities and growth potential that could largely reshape the global future. This potential could also endow Africa with a major role on the geopolitical stage. However, while continuing to reinforce its resolve to rise to the occasion, Africa needs to acknowledge that much work is left …
The recently signed Pakistani-Saudi Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement marks a major evolution in both countries’ security policies. Among other considerations, the accord formalizes, with a binding treaty, their military partnership. The agreement marks the first time Pakistan has, even implicitly, extended its nuclear shield to another country.
American democracy is undergoing one of its most disruptive experiments in the modern era. In just eight months back in office, Donald Trump has unleashed a torrent of executive orders that stretch the boundaries of presidential power, reshaping the balance between the executive and Congress while reverberating across global alliances anchoring the world order.
The United States has asked European countries to deliver a comprehensive blueprint on the Muslim Brotherhood’s organizational structures, networks, and legal fronts within their territories, a European diplomatic source familiar with the matter said.
China’s September 3 military parade was more than a show of strength. It signaled the arrival of a new nuclear era that could upend global security calculations. The parade highlighted how the PRC’s growing nuclear arsenal directly challenges US strategic deterrence, escalates regional proliferation dangers, and threatens the demise of global arms control.
China’s military parade on September 3, 2025, underscored Beijing’s ambition to become the central pillar of those opposing the United States’ global hegemony. Several moments highlighted this Chinese aspiration during the parade. The People’s Liberation Army showcased China’s nuclear triad for the first time, comprising land-based, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and nuclear-capable bombers.
Paris has seen barricades and coups, the theater of revolutions and plebiscites. Yet the most consequential French crises rarely announce themselves with cannon fire. They arrive softly, disguised as cabinet reshuffles and procedural improvisations. This autumn’s sequence, the resignation and reappointment of Sébastien Lecornu, can look like a farce. It isn’t. It’s a clinical finding.
Britain’s immigration debate is no longer about visas or small boats. It has become a referendum on who belongs and whether the state can still balance compassion with control. For the past decade, British debates over immigration were waged in the technocratic register: visa caps, asylum processing times, small-boat interdictions. That register has collapsed.
In further extending its hold over critical technologies, China deepened its control over the rare earth sector earlier this month, broadening restrictions from raw materials to critical processing and manufacturing technologies.
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