The 2023 State Department Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP report) highlighted a new form of trafficking that has largely gone unnoticed outside victim support circles, but which has serious ...

Since the onset of the war in Ukraine, the geopolitical landscape in Europe has been irrevocably altered, prompting the president of France Emmanuel Macron to emphasize that France’s vital interests ...

On June 22, 2025, the United States executed "Operation Midnight Hammer," where over 125 U.S. military aircraft targeted three Iranian nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. The surprise ...

China is increasingly a global power. Its overseas interests are vast and complex, spanning every region of the world. In many places, Beijing is leveraging new sources of strength to assert its ...

Applicants must be between 25-40 years old at the time of the Young Pacific Leaders (YPL) Workshop on Regional Security. Applicants must be a citizen and current resident of one of the YPL countries: ...

By: Meredith Broadbent and Joyce Bongongo This month, Florida became the seventh state to sign a trade Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Kingdom, advancing a new strategy to cement ...

The transit of hundreds of thousands of people through a largely ungoverned zone in an inhospitable tropical habitat has been a recipe for humanitarian and environmental disaster. The Darién Gap is ...

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in strategic decisionmaking is still evolving. There are concerns about ethics, escalation dynamics, testing and evaluation standards, and how best to align ...

Japan has also focused for decades on energy efficiency measures. Mandatory corporate energy efficiency targets, research and development on new technologies to cut energy use in industry and ...

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