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Is Tehran overestimating its position in relation to the Strait of Hormuz?

Middle East TA | AP Insight - August 8, 2026.

The Strait of Hormuz is, by some accounts, named for a Zoroastrian deity destined to emerge victorious after a 9,000-year standoff with an adversary. Iran's leaders...

Riyadh is making a backup plan for its security

Middle East Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - August 8, 2026.

On 7 August, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed a joint defence agreement in Mecca, whose most important provision is that an armed attack on...

China is paying a high price for cheap Renminbi

China Gene Frieda - August 8, 2026.

China’s undervalued exchange rate is often read as a symptom of the imbalance that underlies its surpluses. This is the wrong metaphor. The exchange rate is...

Why must Infantino go? 

Globalization Emre Alkin - August 8, 2026.

Gianni Infantino did not emerge from football’s dressing rooms. He was shaped by its bureaucracy. He learned not the emotion of the game, but the...

Honeymoon in Budapest is coming to an end – will Magyar’s reforms arrive in time?

EU Tomorrow's Affairs Staff - August 7, 2026.

The honeymoon of the new Hungarian government and its leader, Péter Magyar, whose spectacular victory in the elections on 12 April marked the end of...

Defense agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan strengthens collective deterrence

Middle East TA | AP Insight - August 7, 2026.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed a defense agreement on Friday that would treat an attack on one as an attack on all three, officials...

Iceland has many reasons to resume its path toward EU membership

EU Carl Bildt - August 7, 2026.

In a volatile world, solitude is rarely comforting. That is the simple explanation behind Iceland’s August 29 referendum on whether to reopen its abandoned membership...

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