The arrival of Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister in New Delhi this week is, depending on whom you ask, either the

In diplomatic terms, the optics were shocking. Here were representatives from Saudi Arabia and Iran smiling and holding hands in a foreign capital as they

The gentle footsteps of normalization with the Assad regime have become considerably faster since the devastating earthquakes at the start

For months, when it came to Africa, Ukraine was the war that dared not speak its name. Russia and the

Just like that, minilateralism is back. The slimmed-down cousin of geopolitics stalwart bilateralism – state to state relations – and

What started in the autumn as the small, hesitant steps of reluctant dance partners has exploded in pace over the past few

Christmas across the European continent was more subdued this year than usual, thanks to the war in Ukraine. Country after country sought

When France scored their first goal in the World Cup final, the country’s President Emmanuel Macron leapt to his feet in delight.

The start of this week brought a new weapon in the West’s financial war against Russia. Since the invasion of Ukraine began, Western

In the murky world of ISIS families, all diplomacy is conducted quietly. On Monday, the Spanish government quietly admitted it

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows, and the misery of the Ukraine war has dragged some of Russia’s unusual

There has been a second coup in Burkina Faso; the third in the Sahel this year. Mere months after Paul-Henri Damiba overthrew

Since the Syrian uprising erupted more than a decade ago, tens of thousands of Syrians have simply vanished. Protestors arrested

The election victory of Giorgia Meloni in Italy has left journalists scrambling around for adjectives. Is her Brothers of Italy