Trilateral US–Japan–ROK security cooperation deepened in 2025 through major exercises, ministerial meetings, and new maritime frameworks, reinforcing deterrence amid rising North Korean and Chinese threats. However, political shifts, historical grievances, and uncertainty over U.S. commitment continue to test the pact’s long-term stability. In an effort to deepen three-way security cooperation,…
The Home Secretary's asylum overhaul plans to shift the UK from protection to probation: tightening rights, extending precarity, and echoing Farage’s hard-line framing and the British media's use of Albanians as racialised political foil. As Labour triangulates and Reform surges, migration politics are collapsing toward an increasingly punitive centre. When Shabana Mahmood assumed the role of Home Secretary in the…
The global space economy is undergoing a profound transformation—one that is redefining what humanity is capable of beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Once dominated almost exclusively by government agencies such as NASA,…
On March 25, 2025, the U.S. Intelligence Community released its Annual Threat Assessment (ATA), they identified Western-Hemisphere based Transnational Criminal Organizations (cartels) as a significant threat to U.S. national security…
The rippling effect of the European Transit System shutdown for Ukraine, Russia and the security of Europe's future With the European Transit System’s (ETS) last shutdown, we witness a symbolic…
A year after Syria's rebel takeover, has the former opposition leader and his post-Assad administration proven fit to lead the New Syria? In September, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa became the…
Amid mounting casualties and armor losses during their invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces are attempting to adapt to battlefield realities to minimize troop losses while consolidating gains. Since the spring…
The blockade imposed by the jihadist insurgent group JNIM since early September has forced Malian authorities to shut schools and universities, while foreign powers have urged their citizens to leave…
China’s 2025 rare earth export restrictions reveal how economic leverage has become a core tool of modern warfare, exposing U.S. defense vulnerabilities and reshaping the rules of global power. [divider…
The island of Guam is among the most strategically important overseas territories of the United States. It hosts key US military assets essential to operations in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.…
As the UK pursues its green industrial future, control over critical minerals, processing capacity, and global supply chains is emerging as its greatest strategic challenge, with implications for industrial competitiveness,…
The question of political representation has long divided scholars of British democracy. Over the past seven decades, the political landscape has shifted markedly, from the programmatic and charismatic leadership of…
China's great agricultural drive in Latin America proposes significant benefits for all involved, but what are its effects and should it be contained by regulations? China plans to move 300…
President Putin signed over 20 bilateral agreements with President Xi covering energy, aerospace, agriculture, and more during his recent visit to China (Zhang, 2025). Notably, they agreed to complete the…
As Merkel prepares to leave politics and with the European elections around the corner, there is a lot of uncertainty surrounding European politics. Far right parties have recently gained considerable…
Ezra Friedman discusses the significance of the fall of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Warwick’s Pugwash Student Society, along with Warwick’s International Relations Society, are delighted to host their…
In conversation with Romania's former Minister of Health and Chief of Staff for the Minister of Finances Warwick Romanian Speaking Society together with Warwick International Relations Society have the pleasure…