Western alliance

WESTERN leaders are this week commemorating the 75th anniversary of Nato, the creaking military organisation. Yet, attention is instead fast turning to another ageing figure at the heart of the transa...

AS THE Ukraine conflict nears its 500th day of grinding “war of attrition”, a slim but significant window of opportunity for peace may be opening up.

ONE of the standout features of international relations since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been the warming of Western relations with Japan.

American hegemony and the group’s economic dominance are now history

IN THE build-up to next week’s G7 leadership summit, a wide range of issues from climate change to the world economy have been discussed by Western ministers. However, the overriding issue to be discu...

SINCE the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the United States and its allies have insisted that their response to President Vladimir Putin’s aggression, by imposing punishing economic measures on Russia an...

The US-led West is entering the global competition with its rivals with a marked advantage

With no sign of an end to the conflict in sight, America’s current approach of providing military and economic aid to Ukraine without the need to deploy US military troops there may not be viable in t...

IT MAY not be Cold War 2.0, but Russia’s aggression in Ukraine has clearly transformed the global system. It has revitalised the Western alliance and forced it to gather its diplomatic, military and e...