Diplomacy
Trump Announces US-Iran Peace Deal After Months of War
After more than three months of war, failed ceasefires, blockades and negotiations, the United States and Iran have finally agreed on the text of a deal intended to end the conflict. Donald Trump says the…
Pashinyan Wins Armenia Election Despite Russian Pressure
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s Civil Contract party has won today’s parliamentary election, preserving his government at one of the most consequential moments in Armenia’s post-Soviet history. The campaign was shaped by much more than…
India Overtakes Japan to Become World’s Fourth-Largest Economy
India has reached a symbolic economic milestone: on current IMF projections, its nominal GDP is moving past Japan’s, making India the world’s fourth-largest economy behind the United States, China and Germany, with the prospect of…
India-Pakistan Water Dispute Deepens as Indus Treaty Becomes Strategic Leverage
The latest India-Pakistan crisis is moving beyond terrorism and military retaliation into something potentially more structural: water. India continues to hold the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in abeyance following the April 2025 Pahalgam terrorist attack,…
Philippines Election Tests Marcos as Duterte Alliance Collapses
The Philippines is approaching another major political confrontation as the alliance that brought Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte to power has effectively collapsed into open rivalry. Their partnership in 2022 was electorally formidable because…
India and EU Sign Historic Trade Deal After Nearly Two Decades of Negotiations
India and the European Union have signed a long-awaited free trade agreement after negotiations stretching, with interruptions, across almost two decades. The agreement links an Indian economy of more than 1.4 billion people with the…
US-Iran Peace Talks Stall as Oil Prices Surge Above $108
The apparent breakthrough in the Iran conflict has proved much less durable than it looked a week ago. Negotiations between Washington and Tehran have stalled again, the Strait of Hormuz remains severely restricted, and the…
US and Iran Reach Ceasefire Deal After Seven Weeks of War
After seven weeks of war, the United States and Iran have finally reached a ceasefire framework. The agreement follows the failed Islamabad negotiations last weekend and several days of intense mediation involving Pakistan, Oman, Qatar…
US-Iran Peace Talks Fail as Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iranian Ports
The first serious attempt to end the Iran war has failed. American and Iranian delegations spent roughly 21 hours negotiating in Islamabad, in the highest-level direct talks between the two countries since Iran’s 1979 revolution,…
Trump Gives Iran Tuesday Deadline to Reopen Strait of Hormuz
Donald Trump has given Iran until Tuesday evening to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, threatening strikes against Iranian power stations and bridges if Tehran refuses. The ultimatum comes more than a month after the United…
Iran War Enters Fifth Week as Washington Searches for an Exit
The war with Iran is entering its fifth week, and the political problem is beginning to look more difficult than the military one. The United States and Israel have inflicted enormous damage on Iranian missile…
Iran War Forces India to Confront the Cost of Strategic Dependence
The Iran war is beginning to expose a vulnerability India has spent years trying to manage but cannot eliminate quickly: a country can be strategically autonomous in its diplomacy while remaining deeply dependent economically on…
