This report is the second in a GIS series on spacepower. The first can be found here. Part three will be published on July 7. China’s ambitions in space are not isolated technological projects, but ...

Russia could well test NATO by attacking Lithuania, but Vilnius is better prepared than most. A Lithuanian state border guard stands on patrol near Belarus on June 21, 2021 near Poskonys, Lithuania.

Central banks were created to protect the value of money. Instead, they are eroding citizens’ prosperity. As central banks call 2 percent inflation “price ...

AI-driven automation has revived calls for UBI, yet resource limits, inflation risks and mixed human responses challenge its feasibility and benefits. May 23, 2022, Berlin, Germany: A poster ...

The economic legacy of the past few years is mixed. The annual global gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate may hold steady at about 3 percent, yet the United States’ economy is slowing, the ...

The popularity of conservative nationalist movements and political parties is on the rise. One shared position is support for more restrictive immigration policies. Recent political events in Europe ...

On June 26, 1998, then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed the Ditchley Foundation’s annual conference in the United Kingdom. He proposed that private security firms, like those that ...

Transnational organized crime poses an increasingly serious threat to public safety, democratic governance and state legitimacy in Latin America. Once primarily concentrated in countries like Mexico ...

After a rapprochement with Europe followed by an inconclusive attempt to join the European Union in the 1990s and early 2000s, Turkey shifted its focus to Africa. At first, this pivot was motivated by ...

Illicit gold financing networks prolong the Sudan war, while the neighbors who can help most are embroiled in their own disagreements. The conflict that ignited in Sudan in April 2023 began as a power ...

The Human Rights Council of the United Nations is unable to confront serious human rights situations evenhandedly. The divergent interests of the UN membership makes reform of the Human Rights Council ...

Unless Europeans want to see their industries outcompeted globally, they need to free their economy from bureaucratic micromanagement and overcontrol by technocrats. Technocrats in the European Union ...