Global Geopolitics Digest

Rivalry among established powers can deter preventive strikes against rising states by exposing incumbents to exploitation or prompting rivals to...

Wars are reshaping the Middle East's regional order even before fighting ends, with post-conflict architecture already forming three years after the...

War intensifies familiar pathogens by damaging water systems, clinics, and vaccination access rather than creating new threats.

• Gaza polio:...

A joint statement from 10 nations across the Americas condemned Iranian terrorist activity and malign influence, highlighting lethal plotting,...

Industry coalition is pressing CISA to replace voluntary guidance with a binding operational directive that sets mandatory baseline security...

• The 1973 Yom Kippur War's surprise attack and aftermath enabled Sadat's US pivot and Camp David Accords, directly triggering his 1981 assassination...

Gaza’s access restrictions have elevated verification, sourcing transparency and accountability in war reporting.

• Core contradiction: Rapid images...

ECLAC's new report calls for Latin America and the Caribbean to build institutional capacities and act as a region to manage transformations in a...

International law, organizations, states and NGOs respond to armed conflict in ways that can either advance or undermine efforts to end violence. The...

A 2020-2024 study reveals the conflict undermines civilian safety via three interconnected pathways beyond direct violence.

• Casualties and...

Decades of conflict over mineral wealth have created one of the deadliest wars since WWII.

• Over 6 million dead and 7 million displaced since the...

• The conflict has blocked the Strait of Hormuz and sparked fighting at Yemen's Bab al-Mandab, stranding hundreds of ships and halting crude oil, LNG...

Sudan's three-year civil war has morphed into a proxy conflict, with the U.S. accusing Saudi Arabia and the UAE of blocking peace efforts.

• The...

Washington repeatedly declares the Middle East is no longer a priority and the future lies in Asia, yet crises keep pulling it back with troops,...

The UN Security Council has held multiple AI briefings yet produced no dedicated outcomes or infrastructure after three years of talks.

• No...

Control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait has shifted Yemen’s civil war from a contest over Sanaa to a struggle for leverage over global trade routes and...

GGE通过的LAWS最终要素集虽声称未创设新法，但通过共识解释CCW义务实质推动了规范发展。第26、27、30段清晰重申了战争手段无限制、IHL适用于未来技术及马顿斯条款等现有IHL要求，凸显技术中立立场。最终文本中的语言妥协却可能削弱既定法律标准，值得未来治理进程中重新审视。

Putin's three-hour Valdai speech signals a long-term strategy of sustained confrontation, reframing aggression as defense while pursuing dominance...

Yemen's conflict is no sideshow—it directly ties the Iran war to Red Sea chokepoints, regional rivalries, and oil markets.

• Iran-Houthi Axis:...

Battery technology now underpins renewables, EVs, defense systems, and consumer electronics, making supply-chain dominance a strategic imperative.

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