By Carl Bildt What is left of NATO and the transatlantic order after US President Donald Trump’s tumultuous week in Brussels, the United Kingdom and Helsinki, where he defended Russian President Vladimir Putin against...

By Heather Timmons, Quartz Marina Gross was the only other American in the room. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Kevin Baron, Defense One Director of National Intelligence Coats got another surprise Thursday: Putin is coming to town. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Eliot Higgins Bellingcat will be holding a series of five 5-day workshops in September and October 2018 in New York City, Washington D.C., and San Francisco. Please be aware that some workshops will...

By Jacqueline Westermann and Malcolm Davis The world Let’s dive right into world politics and get the Helsinki meeting out of the way: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s long-anticipated get-together was the talk of...

By Terence Wood Development twitter erupted in chirping last week. The cause was a Guardian op-ed from a group of development notables decrying foreign aid. Prominent aid commentator Duncan Green tweeted that the piece...

By James Scambary East Timor held its fourth parliamentary election in May 2018. Kay Rala ‘Xanana’ Gusmão’s newly minted coalition, the Change for Progress Alliance (AMP), comfortably defeated the Revolutionary Front of Independent East...

By Kent Harrington No one yet knows what deals US President Donald Trump may have struck with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their private two-hour meeting in Helsinki. But it is already clear that...

By Michael Shoebridge ASPI’s artificial intelligence and national security masterclass held on 2 July gave some practical insights from experts and senior Australian officials about where AI might be used in national security. The...

By Sachini Muller and Terence Wood On the ABC Dr Serene J Khadar questions whether women’s economic empowerment leads to empowerment in a broader sense. Rebecca Peters became one of the world’s foremost gun-control...

By Kevin Baron and Patrick Tucker, Defense One Did Trump offer to normalize relations? It would be complicated — and Congress gets a vote. …read more From:: Government Executive (Policy)

By Marcus Hellyer With President Donald Trump having returned from his dumpster-fire-lighting tour of Europe, the media firestorm unleashed by his claims last week that the European members of NATO were not meeting their...

By Joyo Sanyal [D]iplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail. —John F. Kennedy, 16 November 1961 [A] more strategic and integrated approach to International Engagement and security cooperation...

By Naval Studies Group To provide context for the recent frigate announcement, we asked the Naval Studies Group at the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at UNSW Canberra to...

By John Coyne and Amelia Meurant-Tompkinson On 23 June 1972, soul singer Johnny Nash released his most popular song: ‘I can see clearly now’. His upbeat classic wasn’t a Pollyanna vision of life, but...