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President Trump urged oil giants to invest billions in Venezuela, but companies cite weak rule of law and entrenched resource nationalism as dealbreakers. Jan. 29, 2026: Oil workers carry a cardboard ...

As scarcity grows, rivers are turning from lifelines into instruments of power and conflict. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa’s biggest hydroelectric dam, has worsened Ethiopia’s years-long ...

Chokepoints shape trade, military mobility and geopolitical power as nations compete to secure or deny critical access in the contest for dominance. Maritime chokepoints have shaped history by ...

Asian states with significant mineral reserves are recalibrating the terms under which their resources are extracted, processed and exported. Nov. 4, 2025: A box of “Made in China” germanium ingots, ...

Christoph Frei is a professor emeritus of political science at the University of St.Gallen. Over the past thirty years, he has been moving back and forth between academia and the private sector. His ...

is a former foreign correspondent.

Hungary, a member of both the European Union and NATO, is increasingly looking eastward to counterbalance its reliance on the West. As long as it remains part of the Western alliance system, Budapest ...

The Human Rights Council of the United Nations is unable to confront serious human rights situations evenhandedly. The divergent interests of the UN membership makes reform of the Human Rights Council ...

Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan are strengthening their economic ties with China through an ambitious railway project linking the three countries along the historical Silk Road. The new railway connecting ...

Greenland has passed a draft constitution, raising the possibility of independence from Denmark and concerns over its strategic significance. Qaanaaq, Greenland is among the most northern inhabited ...

This analysis of the stringent regulatory environment in the European Union and its impact on innovation is the first installment in a two-part series exploring the continent’s challenges in fostering ...