Commentaries
Trump & Xi: A Balance of Power and Vulnerability
The United States and China are now evenly matched as great powers. Given where China is coming from, that can be seen as a gain for China. *******

Commentaries
The United States and China are now evenly matched as great powers. Given where China is coming from, that can be seen as a gain for China. *******
The war triggered by Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only reshaped Europe’s security architecture; it has also exposed the strategic significance of financial infrastructures that had long operated in […]
External publications
Beijing has become more explicit in weaponising trade dependencies through export controls, particularly in critical minerals and rare earth elements (REEs). Europe now faces a structural dilemma: how to reduce […]
Why does Europe have no impact on the war in the Gulf? Nor even on the diplomatic efforts to settle the war? Europeans could have mounted a collective operation to […]
Something is becoming impossible to ignore: wherever you look today – the skies above eastern Ukraine, the Persian Gulf, the plains of Burkina Faso – drones are reshaping the logic […]
External publications
The NPT Review Conference in May 2026 promises to be a battle between competing narratives about the evolution of the global nuclear order. This CSDS In-Depth Paper provides observers and […]