Disagreements over the Iran war and defence procurement threaten to turn the annual summit into another theatre for division ...

A tortuous process has produced a plan that does not set a clear path towards meeting the UK’s defence expenditure targets.

Foreign policy in Britain is often discussed as if it were a distant theatre, detached from the everyday realities of people’s lives. Yet the past decade has shown repeatedly that global shocks land ...

Europe cannot affect the course of America’s latest reinvention, as it did 250 years ago. But it can adapt to a more unhappy ...

The Trump administration’s approach to controlling US companies’ powerful AI capabilities is volatile. It undercuts global ...

Formula 1’s regulator uses a diverse toolkit of rules and penalties to deliver multiple objectives. This could hold lessons ...

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Britain’s defence policy has been dysfunctional for decades. The slow implementation of the 2025 Strategic Defence Review and delays in the release of the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) – originally ...

Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka find themselves at a turning point. Their relatively new governments, brought to power in the wake of youth-led protest movements, retain popular mandates. But they ...

Image — Members of Saraya al-Salam gather during a ceremony in the city of Samarra, Iraq, on 4 June 2026, marking their separation from the Sadrist movement and their integration into the Iraqi ...

Making peace is more difficult than starting wars. President Donald Trump has found this to be painfully true over the past months. Now that a ceasefire arrangement, or memorandum of understanding ...

European states have known since the early 2000s that they will need to develop a replacement for their existing fighter aircraft. Concepts for a ‘next generation fighter programme’ go beyond the ...