As the Dalai Lama declares that his successor will be found in the free world, Beijing escalates efforts to appoint its own. July 5: The 14th Dalai Lama offers prayers during a ceremony before his ...

As U.S.-China tensions deepen, the CPTPP is emerging as a potential third pillar for global trade and stability. The then Canadian trade minister with the president of a Japanese company at an event ...

A sweeping U.S.-EU trade and energy deal has linked tariffs, investment and energy security in a single political and economic package. This report is part of a GIS series on the U.S.-EU trade deal.

Africa’s continental free trade pact promises integration, but uneven reforms and external dependence risk keeping the vision out of reach. Namibia launched its first AfCFTA trade with a salt shipment ...

Transnational organized crime poses an increasingly serious threat to public safety, democratic governance and state legitimacy in Latin America. Once primarily concentrated in countries like Mexico ...

Geopolitical ambitions, ethnic divisions and contested access to the sea and fresh water are intensifying anxieties in Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Tigray region. The port of Massawa is one of the ...

Hungary, a member of both the European Union and NATO, is increasingly looking eastward to counterbalance its reliance on the West. As long as it remains part of the Western alliance system, Budapest ...

In a world teetering between authoritarianism and apathy, the new pope has a choice – challenge injustice or repeat the mistakes of silence and compromise. Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in the U.S ...

A major geopolitical realignment is dismantling traditional foreign aid systems in favor of limited measures to bolster strategic national interests. A man in Nakuru, Kenya, reads a newspaper in ...

Global demand for arable land is rising, making Africa a key target for large-scale acquisitions to tackle food and energy challenges. June 2022: The start of the wheat harvest season in Tunis, ...

President Trump has renewed U.S. interest in Greenland to counter Chinese and Russian influence in the Arctic. Flags from the Faroe Islands, Denmark, Greenland and the United States are displayed in ...

The new French budget was finally approved in the first week of February. The question now is whether it will deliver on its promises. A new government was established in France this December.