Turkmenistan is hedging between China, Azerbaijan and regional ambitions, but may encounter the limits of neutrality.

Jihadist groups are moving south from the Sahel, exploiting weak governance, local grievances and illicit economies.

The Iran conflict has laid bare Japan’s reliance on Middle Eastern oil, pushing Tokyo toward U.S.-aligned diversification.

Iran’s internal crisis is weakening the regime, but Western concessions would reinforce Tehran and undermine prospects for lasting change and regional peace.

The Pope! How many divisions has he got?” This remark, most often attributed to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin during a 1935 exchange with French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval, sums up how little was ...

Critical minerals, infrastructure and strategic competition are making Africa indispensable for global powers.

Beijing is making its research system an experiment in whether AI can compensate for central planning. November 2025: A robot moves through the Shenzhen Synthetic Biology Infrastructure facility at ...

Germany’s political decline is rooted not only in economic weakness, but in a broader shift from responsibility toward redistribution and resentment. Germany’s economic strength was built through hard ...

is Managing Partner at Ambrose Advice.