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Search ArticlesThe Reciprocity Inversion: How Ukraine Became the Gulf’s Counter-Drone Lifeline
In March 2026, as Iranian one-way attack drones pressed against the air defenses of the Arabian Peninsula, the government that stepped forward with an operational answer was not a NATO member, a Gulf Cooperation Council partner, or a traditional security guarantor. It was Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced to the British parliament on March 17 that 201 Ukrainian counter-drone specialists were already operating across the Middle East and Gulf region, with 34 more ready to deploy.
Deferred War: Models of Conflict Freeze and Strategic Implications for Ukraine
Developments in the Ukraine war over the past several months are creating the need to consider the possibility of a frozen conflict. The term refers to a condition in which active hostilities cease while political settlement is deferred to an unspecified future point. In strategic terms, it implies the stabilization of the line of contact; the preservation of the confrontation between the parties; and the absence of a final decision regarding the status of contested territories.
Malaysia-Latin America Relations: Engagement between Distant Partners
The world is becoming increasingly interconnected, and partnerships & alliances are being formed between countries that are geographically far apart from each other. Generally speaking, Latin America sees the United States, China, and Europe as its main extra-regional trading partners and strategic allies. However, other countries should be monitored, including Asian countries such as Japan and South Korea, whose presence and engagement with Latin America have increased in recent years.
US-Iran Negotiations: Pakistan Mediates, India Wins?
When Pakistan helped broker a ceasefire between the US and Iran in April 2026 and convened talks in Islamabad, a verdict quickly followed: Pakistan wins, India loses. It is a compelling story. It is also wrong. India’s absence from the mediation table was not passivity. It was a deliberate choice, and one consistent with how a power of India’s size and ambition conducts itself in international politics. The real question is not why India didn’t mediate. It is whether India loses by not doing so.
The E5 Declaration: Toward a European Pillar of NATO?
The E5 group was launched in November 2024 by German and British defense ministers as a forum for Europe’s five biggest military spenders to meet with lower-spending countries such as Spain explicitly excluded. The E5 has since met seven times, gradually climbing from ministerial to leader-level participation. The five bring very different clout and agendas to the table.
The Iran War Is Reshaping Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Geopolitical Landscape
The Iran war has not made Afghanistan and Pakistan central battlefields, but it has turned them into exposed pressure points: Pakistan as a constrained mediator, the Taliban as a pragmatic neighbor of Tehran, and the wider region as a corridor of refugee, maritime, and militant risk. The Iran war is usually read westward: toward Israel, the Gulf, Washington, and the Strait of Hormuz. But its quieter eastern front runs through Herat, Quetta, Karachi, Gwadar, Chabahar, and Kabul.
Assessing the Trump Administration’s New War on the ICC
The Trump administration’s escalating confrontation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) represents a massive departure in normal state practice, although this should be seen as a shift in method rather than an entirely new position. Rather than accept this move by the Department of State as an act of Trumpian theatrics, it is more appropriate to understand both US grievances and the institutional consequences for international law, which could be grave.
Unguided Missiles: The Ankara Summit and Europe’s Enablers Gap
US reductions in the NATO Force Model will erode capacities such as air-to-air refueling, airborne early warning and control, surveillance and reconnaissance, and suppression of air defenses in Europe. Europe faces a window in 2027-2032 where it will have developed a sovereign deep-strike capacity but lack the enablers to utilize it.
India’s New Stake in Middle East Stability
India’s call this week for the United States and Iran to return to restraint and diplomacy came as an Indian tanker turned back near the Strait of Hormuz following fresh attacks on commercial shipping off the coast of Oman. The two developments capture how India’s West Asia dilemma has shifted. The region is no longer just a theatre where New Delhi balances separate relationships with Israel, the Gulf, and Iran.
On Shifting Ice: Meta-Geopolitics and the Earth-Polar-Space Security Nexus
Some of the world’s most consequential geopolitical frontiers are no longer found only along contested borders or strategic waterways. They are emerging at the planet’s frozen extremes, and beyond them. As climate change reshapes the Arctic and Antarctic, regions once regarded as remote, inhospitable, and geopolitically peripheral are becoming central arenas of strategic competition. But what happens when the last great terrestrial frontiers begin to open?