It is a popular pastime in the modern era to imagine how the world is going to end – AI might become a little too intelligent and no...

Western media and governments are fond of claiming that their dynamic economic sanctions against Russia following the 2022 invasion of...

On November 5th and 19th, Moldova held local elections – the first in a series of elections to be held in quick succession. The local...

It is well known that in 2022, the majority of exports by state-backed energy giants such as Gazprom and Rosatom were heavily...

When United States President Joe Biden was elected in 2021, he promised to pursue a values-based foreign policy focusing on democracy,...

As President Zelensky took the stage at the United Nations, accusing Russia of weaponising food prices and arguing that neighbouring...

The high seas and the moon are international territories (res communis omnium, in legal terms) controlled by no single state. But as Meta...

Lucy Gardner It is often helpful in international relations to imagine the world as a primary school playground: a gossip-girl style...

Michael Maalouf On September 19, 2023, Azerbaijan launched a military offensive on Nagorno-Karabakh after implementing a blockade on the...

Lucy Gardner Organised cybercrime is one of the fastest-moving, least visible threats in modern society. It is a threat made only worse...

Lance Moore On February 24th, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, with Russian military forces...

Jack Wilkin During the Soviet era, Putin was a KGB agent working in East Germany. Some within the KGB felt strongly that the Soviets'...

Paweł Płonka BRICS seems to be growing in importance worldwide. Six new members. A higher share of the global GDP compared to G7. Voices...

On the 23rd of August, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner Private Military Company, died in a plane crash on the outskirts of...

Reports suggest that Germany is bypassing sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation by the European Union. By increasing trade with...

Lucy Gardner Over the last year, Western governments have been obsessed with the idea that sanctions imposed on R ussia have presented a...

Cyrus Larcombe-Moore On the Dniester River's eastern bank lies Transnistria, a territory where black-market trading and Soviet nostalgia...

Following the dramatic events beginning on the 23rd of June, which saw Wagner Group’s mutiny shake the red-brick and ornate marble of the...

A political fracture is expanding in Georgia as the country contends with increasing Russian influence. The former Soviet state finds...

James Loughton Nestled in-between Poland and Lithuania lies a peculiar landmass, seemingly lost from its motherland, the Kaliningrad...