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The UN’s Withering Vine: A US Retreat from Global Governance
By Jordan Ryan | 10 January, 2026
The Trump administration’s recent announcement of its withdrawal from 66 international organisations has been met with a mixture of alarm and applause. While the headline number suggests a dramatic retreat from the world stage, a closer look reveals a more nuanced, and perhaps more insidious, strategy.
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Crisis in Venezuela: Three Scenarios
By Robert Kaufman | 09 January, 2026
The US' military intervention in Venezuela has opened the way to a prolonged and costly commitment, with potentially very high impact on US treasure, on political stability in Venezuela, and on the lives and security of people throughout the region.
Venezuela and the UN's Proxy War Moment
By Jordan Ryan | 05 January, 2026
The United States military intervention in Venezuela, culminating in the capture of Nicolás Maduro on 3 January 2026, has been framed in starkly different ways.
The US National Security Strategy Returns to the World of Power Politics
By Ramesh Thakur | 04 January, 2026
The ‘Trump Corollary’ is imperialist in conception and interventionist in practice
Is China's "Great Power Status" a Plus or Minus?
By Daiju Wada | 24 December, 2025
It is a well-known fact that Japan, Taiwan, and Western nations are increasingly concerned about the rapid political, economic, and military rise of China—its attainment of ‘great power status’—which heightens security risks, particularly the prospect of a Taiwan contingency.
'Silent Victim'? Interrogating the Ecological Implications of War
By Robert Mizo | 18 December, 2025
Rarely do analyses on wars consider the environment; it is presumed to be a ‘silent victim’, an unavoidable collateral of the human condition that is essentially conflictual.
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