In the global competition for technological leadership and economic resilience, Southeast Asia is quickly emerging as a critical node. Anchored by countries like Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore, the ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is more than a technological breakthrough—it is a transformative force shaping the future economy, security landscape, global power dynamics, and daily life. The US, along ...

For decades, the US has taken the security of global sea lanes for granted, assuming that commercial and military shipping would always function smoothly. But while America remained complacent, China ...

Protecting the freedom of navigation and overflight across the Indo-Pacific remains a shared security and commercial interest for both the United States and Japan. Yet, Beijing’s continued unlawful ...

Sudan's civil war has drawn extensive foreign involvement, complicating peace efforts and deepening the humanitarian crisis. Divided alliances among regional and global powers, alongside international ...

The African Union's new AI Strategy aims to balance innovation and regulation across Africa, but challenges around infrastructure and governance remain central to its successful implementation.

By late 2023, the Houthis were confident enough to attack U.S. warships in the Red Sea. The Houthis became the first group to fire anti-ship ballistic missiles, although most attacks on commercial ...

Seven of the eight Arctic nations are members of NATO yet collectively, they trail Russia's ice-breaker capacity. This was even before adding in the icebreakers China has built as it proclaims itself ...

Erdoğan's first visit to Iraq in 13 years led to 26 signed memorandums, including one for the Development Road Project. This project aims to create a trade corridor from Basra to Turkey and eventually ...

The views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not express the official position of the Wilson Center. Hamas’s terrorist attack on October 7 killed more than 1,200 Israelis and has ...

The Baltic states–Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania–have warned of potential Russian aggression for decades. When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, it showed that Western Europe should have heeded ...

Francophone West Africa’s six military seizures of power since 2020 were underpinned by waning popular support for democracy in the region. The coups—two in Burkina Faso (both in 2022), two in Mali ...