The G20 has invited Bangladesh to participate in its annual summit for the first time this year. Bangladesh’s growing economic might and its strategic location at the crossroads between South and ...

So, as usual, we’ll have a three-part structure. We are going to first ask the question: What are these tensions? Then we are going to pose the question: Why do we have these tensions? And then we ...

In October 2025, Le Monde featured a column by its San Francisco correspondent, Corine Lesnes, in which she expressed her doubts about the sanity of a prominent figure in finance and a Silicon Valley ...

Recent geopolitical shifts in the Middle East are reshaping Yemen’s strategic landscape. This evolving context presents an opportunity for Gulf states to pursue a Yemen policy that prioritizes the ...

Contemporary great power competition is shifting toward strategic “gateways” of the international system — regions where geopolitical influence, economic infrastructure and military power intersect.

China condemned the operation that started the Iran War but refrained from direct involvement, revealing limits in its strategic partnerships. The disruption of Iran’s oil exports to China highlights ...

History will record the early 21st century as the era of the “Great Betrayal.” We witness a profound moral collapse within Western academia, media and political movements — a collapse defined by a ...

Looked at from outside, as a non-Indian India hand, India follower, the picture that has been painted, that one thinks one sees at least in part, is that Modi and his party have said they wanted to ...

For a sports event established and still trading on the rhetoric of world peace and unity, such a controversial intervention from a past FIFA leader is unprecedented and extraordinary. FIFA, ...

The fracturing of the Atlantic alliance under US President Donald Trump’s erratic leadership forces Germany to reconsider its security strategy amid rising tensions with Russia and an unpredictable US ...

US President Donald Trump’s surprise military operation to seize Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and announce that the US will “run” Venezuela for an unspecified transition period has been widely ...

Imagine a distant past, thousands of years ago, when ancient tribes roamed the vast lands of Eurasia. Among these tribes were the enigmatic Proto-Indo-Europeans, whose language, now known as ...