United States: Will Trump pitch a grand bargain with Beijing? Once Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20, he will have choices to make and the authority to make them. Top of the list are America’s ...

Assad’s departure could help Turkey become a key point of transit for natural gas. But renewable energy may offer the more ...

The rapid and complete capitulation of the Assad regime in Syria shows how quickly fragile political systems can transform.

As Europe deals with a series of ongoing crises – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the rise of populist nationalism and increasingly difficult economic challenges – along comes another: the re-election ...

The fall of the Assad regime has damaged Russian interests far beyond Syria. First, the collapse is a serious blow to Russia’s reputation as a reliable ally capable of guaranteeing the survival of its ...

The World Today is a quarterly magazine that stimulates debate on international affairs by providing fresh insights from Chatham House experts and authorities around the globe. The current issue is ...

The ousting of Syria’s brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad by his own people is not just a momentous national event but one with consequences spilling across the Middle East, nowhere more so than Iran.

Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme and UK in the World Programme Bashar al-Assad has been here before. The fall of Aleppo last week in many ways resembles similar lightning ...

Women’s rights organizations and feminist activists in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) continue to live in a political culture of impunity and with increased violent backlash on their ...

For more than 60 years, France and Germany have been official friends – or more than friends. They have been diplomatic ‘besties’, the indispensable ‘couple’ at the heart of the European Union. In the ...

In autumn 2023, the world woke up to the existence of a new face of Irish politics: a violent far right. On a cold November night in Dublin, young men apparently inspired by inflammatory online calls ...