Foreign and security policyWith or without Trump The US will continue to withdraw from multilateral institutions — regardless of the election outcome. Is Europe ready to fill the gap? By Tim Heinkelmann-Wild
Foreign and security policyJournalists under fire Press freedom comes at a deadly price in Gaza. Europe cannot remain indifferent to the loss of so many By Maja Sever
Foreign and security policyFrom Kazan, with caution The BRICS alliance promoted the Global South at its summit in Russia. The promise: to overcome Western hegemony By Alexandra Sitenko
Foreign and security policyPressure on an atomic level Israel’s strikes against Hezbollah and Hamas weaken Iran. The country’s will to cross the nuclear threshold is growing By Ruslan Suleymanov
Foreign and security policyCall it by its name There is a quiet political conflict over the name of a key waterway — the Persian Gulf By Kourosh Ziabari
Foreign and security policyA flower left to wilt If the rest of Europe truly wants to support democratic movements in Belarus, it needs to stop seeing the country and its people as a problem By Andrey Dzmitryeu
Foreign and security policyInternal rifts, external pressures As China and Russia vie for influence within the SCO, their strategies could either foster cooperation or deepen internal divisions By Adil Sultan
Foreign and security policyWill oil decide the fate of the Russia-Ukraine War? A collapse in global oil prices could pose a significant risk to Putin’s war machine By Luke Cooper
Foreign and security policyBrazil — the global peacemaker? From Gaza to Ukraine, Brazil’s growing role in international mediation highlights the country’s ambition to challenge Western-led norms By Mariano Aguirre Ernst, Mabel González Bustelo
Foreign and security policyFrom ‘Big Brother’ to ‘Vishwamitra’ India is growing increasingly isolated in its own backyard. To counter this, the country needs to actively cultivate a more cooperative, gentler image By Kshitij Singh