With 11 members, 10 partner countries and an expanding economic footprint, BRICS increasingly presents itself as a platform for a more multipolar international order. Its…
A new assessment estimates that India may possess around 190 nuclear warheads and enough weapons-grade plutonium for as many as 225. The numbers matter, but…
The Svalbard incident reveals how the seabed has become a central arena of Russia’s confrontation with Europe, where communications cables, satellite links and energy infrastructure…
Vladimir Putin’s KGB years in East Germany belonged to a much larger Soviet system of intelligence cooperation, military presence and political control. More than three…
Saxony-Anhalt’s historic vote for the far right cannot be explained by immigration alone. The deeper story lies in the unfinished political and psychological legacy of…
The disagreement between Washington and European capitals is not really about whether Russia plans a conventional invasion of NATO. It is about deterrence, hybrid warfare…
Indirect channels remain alive even as military escalation, economic pressure and competing demands over the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s nuclear programme make a negotiated…