“This is going to be great television … I will say that.” This is how the American president summed up the conclusion of the most fractious meeting to have occurred in front of journalists between an ...

After attending this month's Munich Security Conference, the Institute's Hervé Lemahieu speaks with Lydia Khalil about the Trump administration’s diplomatic cavalry charge on Europe, and lessons for ...

INTERPOL this month announced the successful rescue of nearly 20,000 live animals, all of which belong to endangered or protected species, as part of a global crackdown on wildlife and forestry ...

The control of land has a physical, psychological, and symbolic dimension to populations. “Land control” primarily acts as a tool to secure that from where our political and economic power emanates.

“Wir schaffen das.” Former Chancellor Angela Merkel’s 2015 declaration of faith in Germany’s capacity to cope with unprecedented waves of unsought asylum seekers is best translated as “we’ve got this” ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Tuesday his intention to rip billions of pounds from the country’s aid budget and instead use it to prop up increased defence investment. How concerned ...

First, it was Japan that was negotiating Reciprocal Access Agreements (RAA) with partner nations such as Australia, the United Kingdom, and others. Now, the Philippines has followed suit with Visiting ...

The speech by US Vice President JD Vance at the recent Munich Security Conference delivered a blistering critique of the European project and its supposed failings. More important than the detail of ...

On 4 December 2024, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed on the street in midtown Manhattan. Following a highly publicised manhunt, Luigi Mangione, was arrested and charged ...

When gauging the implications of Trump 2.0 for Australia, experts regularly look to draw insight from Canada’s recent interactions with the United States. After all, as Sam Roggeveen notes, there is a ...

Faced with the collapse of the treasured old Atlanticist certainties, Merz’s priority will be to create unity in Europe. Though the election was strikingly – astonishingly – inward looking, Merz’s ...

The PLA Navy’s unprecedented live-fire exercise 640 kilometres off the south coast of New South Wales, quickly followed by a second such exercise closer to New Zealand, was provocative and deeply ...