The US is steadily pulling back from multilateral diplomacy, a shift increasingly visible across key international forums, suggest Joyce Hakmeh and Marion Messmer in their Chatham House article. Under the Trump administration, the US is actively pursuing bilateral rather than multilateral diplomacy to address major... Read More
Around 8.4 percent of the world lives in extreme poverty, which the World Bank defines as living on less than $2.15 a day. To put that in perspective, the average cost of a loaf of bread loaf in the U.S. in 2022 was $2.50. Extreme... Read More
Israel has not succeeded in neutralizing Hamas’s ability to continue operating in terrorist and guerrilla patterns against IDF forces inside the Strip. Moreover, the organizations in the Strip retain the ability to carry out cross-border attacks against Israeli targets, Ofer Guterman notes in this INSS... Read More
The prevalence of authoritarian governance systems across the world means that liberal democracies need to work with security institutions in those systems to achieve their own foreign and security policy objectives. However, providing external security support in these settings is fraught with risks. In his... Read More
Gender-based violence (GBV) serves not only as a catalyst for migration but also as a persistent threat throughout the migration journey. Defined as any harmful act committed against a person’s will, and based on socially ascribed gender differences, GBV includes physical, sexual, and psychological harm... Read More
This Pew Research Center survey conducted in early February 2025 - before the late Pope Francis’ hospitalization on 14 February - finds that majorities of U.S. Catholics express views that differ from church teachings on birth control, marriage and the priesthood: 84% of U.S. Catholics... Read More
The security sector needs to engage peacebuilders and communities to assess security threats and priorities so as to inform policy and practice. This report by Sanam Naraghi Anderlini and Isabela Karibjanian for the International Civil Society Action Network underscores the importance of multi-sectoral approaches to... Read More
The belief that poverty can be prevented by identifying and dealing with its causes, and the... Read More
NASA and China having landed mobile rovers on the surface of Mars has raised the question of... Read More
World affairs, diplomacy and trade are no longer solely the domain of nation-states, as cities... Read More
According to household surveys, 44 percent of the global population lived in absolute... Read More
Around 8.4 percent of the world lives in extreme poverty, which the World Bank defines as living on less than $2.15 a day. To put that in perspective, the average cost of a loaf of bread loaf in the U.S. in 2022 was $2.50. Extreme... Read More
