Diplomacy & Crisis News

A clear division of labor ensures North Korea’s alliances with Russia and China are complementary, not competitive with each other.

Depuis sa fondation, en 1984, les quelque deux millions de membres revendiqués du Mouvement des travailleurs ruraux sans terre (MST) militent pour une réforme agraire au Brésil, en occupant des terres pour les cultiver jusqu'à obtenir leur régularisation par l'État. / Brésil, Agriculture, (…) / Brésil, Agriculture, Réforme agraire, Mouvement de contestation

Netanyahu’s opponents are ahead but will struggle to form a coalition.

Canberra should stay out of what Port Moresby decides on Bougainville, but it can push for a concrete timeline for the decision.

« Madagascar, un an après le coup d’Etat » (4/4). Mi-août, la mort sur le front ukrainien d’un Malgache enrôlé par l’armée russe a mis en lumière la discrète campagne de recrutement militaire sur la Grande Ile. Depuis l’arrivée du colonel Randrianirina, le pays a entamé un rapprochement généralisé avec la Russie, au grand dam de Paris.

Why digital connectivity has become the new front in modern warfare.

Migrant worker recruitment debt threatens the island’s access to Western markets and its ties with Southeast Asia.

For decades, Washington tried to change Pyongyang’s nuclear policy. Now North Korea is trying to do the reverse: use its nuclear weapons to change U.S. policy.

A law school professor was dismissed after online controversy over her course on women’s rights.

Establishment of the Laotian base follows a pattern in China’s growing external military presence and access. 

From a 1958 design study to reported approaches to the U.S. Navy, Japan has repeatedly examined nuclear-powered submarines without making an acquisition decision.

Bad strategy long predates Pete Hegseth and his obsession with “lethality.”

Après treize mois d’audience, et l’audition de plus de 120 témoins, le premier procès du pasteur autoproclamé, accusé de l’une des pires tragédies de l’histoire du pays, s’est achevé lundi 19 octobre. Le prononcé de la peine aura lieu ultérieurement.

Why a retiring Jeanne Shaheen thinks bipartisanship still has a future in America.

Le bilan pourrait « malheureusement s’alourdir », ont prévenu les autorités locales. Dimanche et lundi, plusieurs frappes au Soudan avaient fait près de 100 morts dans des zones aux mains des paramilitaires des Forces de soutien rapide.

The past two years have seen the growing use of off-the-shelf commercial drones for criminal and militant activities.

Niall Ferguson, the leading historian of empire, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and AI scholar Lisa Klassen offer a novel reframing of the US-China AI race in the history of world empires. The authors argue that AI is inherently imperial in it ambitions and structure, and that, like previous technological empires, China and US have amassed extraordinary global but that it's happening at a much faster pace. Rise and fall cycle will be faster. It will either lead to catastrophe or slow decline.

William McRaven, a retired four-star admiral and a major figure in American military affairs, uses history and his personal experiences to make an authoritative case that American leaders frequently overestimate the potential of military force to achieve political ends—and that new technologies like AI will exacerbate this problem.

Mara Karlin, a defense policy expert who served as senior national-security official in multiple American administrations, makes an authoritative case that war planners tend to be overconfident about their ability to predict how new tools will shape the battlefield—blinding them to the unchanging realities of war. Using examples from Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran, Karlin shows how this "technology trap" leads to false assumptions about the future of war.

In this essay, Niall Ferguson, one of the world’s foremost experts on imperial history, teams up the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, and the researcher Lisa Klaassen to make the provocative argument that AI is an inherently “imperial technology”—and to reveal what the fate of past empires might say about the future of U.S.-Chinese competition in a world shaped by AI.