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Pakistan merged its tribal areas but never settled the land

August 27, 2026

A new layer of deterrence: the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement

August 26, 2026

Turning the EU's South Caucasus moment into a permanent strategy

August 25, 2026

Why were Portuguese Indians key players in the 2022 Leicester riots?

July 8, 2026

Trump’s version of Atlanticism mirrors Putin’s Eurasianism 

January 8, 2026
September 17, 2025

More women, multipartism, and far-right populism — is Japan becoming more 'European'?

Robert Nordström Has Japan really swung to the right? Robert Nordström explores how the collapse of one-party dominance has fuelled European-style populism — and opened the door to wider social change Read more
September 15, 2025

Japan on the frontlines of a global health crisis: antimicrobial resistance

Frank Tu Ngo Frank Tu Ngo highlights Japan’s leadership in mitigating one of today’s most urgent global health challenges, antimicrobial resistance (AMR). By capitalising on its political influence, funding, expertise, and diplomatic positioning, Japan is driving global efforts against AMR Read more
September 9, 2025

Armenia’s church-state relationship: the price of peace in the South Caucasus?

Logan Liut Internationally hailed as a breakthrough, Armenia’s US-brokered peace with Azerbaijan has come at steep domestic cost. Logan Liut explores how Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s foreign policy pivot triggered a rupture between the state and the influential Armenian Apostolic Church — threatening a vital source of Armenian soft power Read more
August 4, 2025

☢️ The legacy of Kazakhstan's nuclear past 

Marzhan Nurzhan The people of Kazakhstan are still grappling with the toxic legacy of twentieth-century Soviet nuclear tests. Marzhan Nurzhan examines nuclear identity and decoloniality in Kazakhstan's atomic past, through the medium of visual art  Read more
February 11, 2025

China's strategy to consolidate itself as a global superpower

Konrad Szatters Under Xi Jinping, nationalist right-wing rhetoric drives China’s leftist and socialist state ideology. Konrad Szatters describes how elements of this rhetoric echo the far-right populist narratives in numerous European countries Read more

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