Global Outlook

What key factors are behind the increasing support for Shigeru Ishiba's administration in Japan after a crushing defeat in the July House of Councillors election?

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence-enabled drone technology significantly enhance nuclear weapon delivery, precision targeting, and deterrence capabilities. However, the proliferation of autonomous drone systems also introduces critical strategic and ethical challenges. To ensure global stability, we must create robust international frameworks

Does a person have the right to move freely? Doesn’t a person have the right to seek safety, pursue happiness, or simply adventure elsewhere? What once seemed instinctive is now seen as impermissible, unnatural, even immoral.

At a time when the world is shifting into a period of multipolar multilateralism, Trump’s anger-fuelled attempts to coerce India and Brazil into abandoning BRICS could instead cement the group’s cohesion as the vehicle for democratising the architecture of international financial governance.

The US president's erratic tariff policy is disrupting global political relations. Long-standing alliances are being called into question, and new, unexpected alliances appear possible..

In democracies under strain, the most important truths often arrive too late, uttered hesitantly by those who should have spoken earlier.