Reports and analysis from analysts embedded across the regions, covering security, politics and risk across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia.
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Indo-Pacific
18 November 2025
The Funan Techno Canal and Cambodia’s Strategic Development
The Funan Techno Canal (FTC), a major infrastructure development in Southeast Asia, was first approved by Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen in May 2023. The FTC is a 180km long canal, which will run from Phnom Penh to the Coast on the Gulf of Thailand. The project has a total estimated cost of $1.7 billion, representing a significant undertaking that is over five percent of Cambodia’s GDP. The FTC can accommodating cargo ships with a 3,000 deadweight tonnage in the dry season and up to 5,000 deadweight tonnage in the rainy season.
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LATAM & Caribbean
14 November 2025
Trust in the Colombian State: Persistence Amid Governance Gaps in Conflict-Affected Areas
Across centuries of political thought, the idea of the social contract has shaped how citizens understand their relationship with authority, a reciprocal exchange of freedoms for protection and order. Yet in many contexts, this reciprocity has faltered. States with weak capacity often fail to deliver basic services or even become agents of violence. Despite this, citizens’ trust and identification with such states frequently endure.
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Security & Conflict
14 November 2025
The Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Military Planning
The incorporation of AI into military doctrine marks one of the most significant transformations in warfare since the introduction of nuclear weapons and cyber capabilities. AI-driven technologies now underpin critical components of national defence systems, from real-time threat detection to autonomous targeting and logistics optimisation.
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Türkiye
1 November 2025
Türkiye to Re-join the F-35 Program?
Türkiye's potential re-entry into the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program hinges on overcoming the foundational impasse created by its acquisition of the Russian S-400 air defence system.
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17 October 2025
An Imperfect Union: The Void Underpinning Europe’s Banking Market
When Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) secured control of Mediobanca in a €16bn share-and-cash offer in late-September, it marked a striking reversal for a lender that required a state-backed rescue eight years earlier.
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Security & Conflict
13 October 2025
The Rise of Drones in Global Conflict
The past year has been a landmark year for drone warfare, with the technology adopted by an array of actors throughout the world, with ramifications for military strategy, policy, and the nature of conflict itself.
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5 October 2025
What is next for Iran and Israel?
Operation Rising Lion was launched by Israel on 13 June 2025, targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and senior officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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4 October 2025
U.S. Recognition of Somaliland – Would it be Beneficial?
Somaliland is a de facto independent state in the Horn of Africa. Originally a British protectorate, Somaliland has been legally recognised as part of the Federal Republic of Somalia since 1960 by the international community when it gained independence and united with Italian Somaliland to form Somalia. In 1991, amidst worsening relations with Mogadishu, Somaliland declared independence, a status it enjoys in practice today. However, despite the current reality on the ground, not a single UN member officially recognises Somaliland’s sovereignty.
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LATAM & Caribbean
23 September 2025
In 2015, ExxonMobil struck oil in the waters of a nation whose entire GDP was barely a quarter of its own annual profits. Guyana, home to just over 800,000 people, skyrocketed to the centre of global economic and geopolitical attention almost overnight.
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