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Belarus between military integration with Russia and bargaining with the West

Eastern Europe Oleksandr Levchenko - September 29, 2026.

Belarus is becoming increasingly integrated into Russia’s military and political system, while simultaneously seeking to use the limited resumption of contacts with the West to...

Mediators are working to broker a US-Iran deal

Middle East TA | AP Insight - September 28, 2026.

Mediators are working with Iran and the United States on trying to broker a deal to end the fighting and open the Strait of Hormuz,...

What the Stasi archives reveal about the value of technological espionage

Economy TA Analysis - September 28, 2026.

On 27 September, Reuters reported on a new paper by three economists who attempted to answer a question that countries can usually only estimate: how...

An alliance of former enemies is pushing Ethiopia towards a new war

Politics Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - September 28, 2026.

Ethiopia’s Chief of General Staff, Birhanu Jula, said on 27 September that the army was responding with restraint to attacks from the northern Tigray region....

Why is the IMF returning to Latin America?

Economy Martín Abeles - September 28, 2026.

For much of the 2000s, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) seemed to have finally distanced itself from the International Monetary Fund. The debt crises of...

Central banks are squeezing the private economy while shielding sovereign debt

Finances Daniel Lacalle - September 28, 2026.

Higher financing costs can weaken households and businesses without causing a financial crash. The danger is that policymakers mistake protected markets for a healthy economy. Central...

UN peacekeeping between a rock and a hard place

Globalization Adekeye Adebajo - September 27, 2026.

As global leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the world is facing the largest number of armed conflicts since 1946,...

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