Diplomacy & Crisis News

After two consecutive NPT RevCons failed to muster consensus, Vietnam’s U.N. ambassador – and the president-designate of the 11th Review Conference – says this year’s meeting must succeed.

The PLA is sending military signals amid the Philippines-U.S. Balikatan exercise and ahead of the Trump-Xi summit.

Zholdasbay Sagidullayev allegedly approached a district police department building and repeatedly shouted, "Alga, Karakalpakstan!" 

Amid Tokyo’s arms export shift, one massive potential market still remains untapped.

Doubts about U.S. credibility are making arms purchases harder to sustain.

Migration enables Uzbek women to renegotiate traditional gender roles and assume greater economic responsibility, even if their experiences are shaped by legal precarity and social vulnerability.

Why a global era of authoritarian governance may be coming to an end.

Marcus Tantau from Templeton Research offers fresh insights into the region's economies as they reel from the impacts of the Hormuz oil crisis.

ATIGA review and industrial strategy in an age of geopolitical risk

It clubbed an already passed amendment on women’s reservation with the controversial amendment to delimit electoral boundaries. The ploy flopped.

The region offers a market with untapped potential for streaming entertainment, and one where disposable income is likely to rise in the years to come.

DRAFT RECOMMENDATION on the draft Council decision on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Union and Canada laying down the conditions for the participation of Canadian legal entities and products originating in Canada to procurement under the SAFE Instrument
Committee on Industry, Research and Energy
Committee on Security and Defence
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Borys Budka

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