Although Friedrich Merz has big ambitions for Germany’s international role, significant domestic pressures remain and will constrain his government’s room for manoeuvre.

Failing to align with the EU on a key climate policy tool will be costly for UK industry and stifle investment in the energy ...

Presented with a binary choice between US and Chinese technology, middle powers must balance realism and ambition in ...

The summit will be valuable if it yields a substantive defence agreement. But wider foreign policy issues should be part of ...

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE will seek to deepen ties with Washington – but tariffs and oil prices worry Gulf states, as does ...

India and Pakistan declared a ceasefire on 10 May, bringing an end to four days of military conflict. After it was first ...

Growing differences with the US president over the war in Gaza and the new government in Syria are compounding domestic pressure on the Israeli prime minister.

But New Delhi’s policy of strategic autonomy – and its brewing conflict with Pakistan – may hamper cooperation in some areas.

Following the recent round of hostilities between India and Pakistan, experts look into the long-term implications for ...

The Pahalgam terror attack has returned Kashmir to the international agenda. But a history of flawed policy means neither ...

The implications will depend on how effectively the opposition can channel the energy unleashed by the arrest into political ...