For much of the past decade, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been portrayed as the twin pillars of a new Gulf order: assertive, interventionist, and closely…
The United Kingdom’s defence policy in 2025 is shaped by the tension between its strategic ambitions within the ‘Coalition of the Willing’ and NATO, and the fiscal constraints it faces.…
Control of the South China Sea determines strategic leverage in the Indo-Pacific, driving sustained great-power rivalry, grey-zone coercion, and complex hedging by Taiwan, the Philippines and ASEAN amid shifting US-China…
