Amid political paralysis at home, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has turned the country’s attention to foreign policy to counter his domestic troubles. https://t.co/Ro3oGayPpj

Australia and Papua New Guinea’s new defense agreement is a remarkable achievement for both countries. But given the two sides’ significantly different geostrategic objectives, implementation will be tricky. https://t.co/r6TUInzAae

WPR Editor-in-Chief @ElliotWaldman recently spoke to Sweden’s @sverigesradio about the global wave of Gen-Z protests. Hear his analysis here, beginning at the 14 minute mark: https://t.co/pnkBlZtKSE

Most young Africans remain committed to the idea of democracy, but they are profoundly frustrated with its results, Lesley Anne Warner writes. https://t.co/OmszcTTzU6

Phase 1 of Trump’s Gaza peace plan has mostly been implemented, but as @ProfPaulPoast writes, the subsequent phases are far less likely to succeed. https://t.co/4GFMjLxHZp

My latest column @WPReview from Tuesday. Fragile truce is what I predicted and it's what we got. China prevailed in this round, but Trump will pretend otherwise for now. Maybe the nuclear announcement was a deflection away from this mediocre deal.

Spain’s prime minister is emphasizing his party’s positions on issues like NATO and Gaza to shore up his political standing. https://t.co/Ro3oGayPpj

Given the two sides’ significantly different geostrategic objectives, implementation of Australia and Papua New Guinea’s new defense agreement will be tricky, calling into question its sustainability. https://t.co/r6TUInzAae

As Europe enters a new era of strategic competition, the private sector is not doing enough to adapt to a dangerous new reality. https://t.co/RqnqidK6Cu

The dream of “global AI governance” is dead. Instead, fragmentation has emerged as the new normal. https://t.co/LpzEP5O8ra

After a rough year, Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has found an unlikely strategy for countering his domestic troubles: turning the country’s attention to foreign policy. Read more in @FridaGhitis’ latest column: https://t.co/Ro3oGayPpj

Australia and Papua New Guinea’s new defense agreement is a remarkable achievement for both countries. And yet, as @DerekJGrossman writes, the two sides also have significantly different geostrategic goals. https://t.co/r6TUInzAae

Australia and Papua New Guinea recently signed an historic defense cooperation agreement. Canberra seeks to use it to counter China in the Pacific Islands region, but Port Moresby isn't so keen. Is this a sustainable difference? I explain for @WPReview.

Pakistan’s defense minister is threatening to “obliterate” the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan after peace talks collapsed. Read more in the latest Daily Review: https://t.co/HBUN1GE6Vx

ICYMI, my take for @WPReview on the complex sociopolitical dynamics of Cabo Delgado and what #Mozambique's continued reliance on Rwandan troops tells us >>

Governments and their militaries aren’t the only ones who need to adapt to Europe’s new era of strategic competition, @RikeFranke writes. Private sector businesses must also meet the challenges of this new reality. https://t.co/RqnqidK6Cu

In the future, 2025 will be remembered as the year that shifted the AI debate away from the ideal of transnational coherence and toward the reality of regulatory fragmentation, Kat Duffy writes. https://t.co/LpzEP5O8ra

The recent ascension of Jose Jeri to be interim president marks a new low in Peru’s ongoing democratic decline. @SimeonTegel reports from Lima: https://t.co/PZ8trNsgdP

Despite the real power they exercise, there are some striking similarities in the brittleness of Xi’s and Trump’s domestic political control, Mary Gallagher (@MaryGao) writes. https://t.co/SX0fZnuqkb

As Europe enters a new era of strategic competition, the private sector is not doing enough to adapt to a dangerous new reality, @RikeFranke writes. https://t.co/RqnqidK6Cu