World Politics Review

Washington isn’t losing Southeast Asia outright—but regional states are increasingly adjusting to China as a more consistent, present, and economically reliable partner, @DerekJGrossman writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/us-losing-infl…

The UAE’s departure from OPEC was part of a broader regional realignment that has been accelerated by the Iran war. worldpoliticsreview.com/uae-opec-withd…

The Iran war is both accelerating and complicating a major realignment in the South Caucasus that has been in motion since 2020, Jonathan Fenton-Harvey writes for WPR. worldpoliticsreview.com/iran-war-south…

Xi Jinping has cast China as a responsible anchor of stability in a turbulent world. But as columnist @ProfPaulPoast writes, that message is also fully self-serving. worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-xi-china…

As the Trump-Xi summit just confirmed, the US is now losing power to China at an alarming rate. The story is no different, and perhaps worse, in a critical Indo-Pacific subregion: Southeast Asia. I explain what's happening in my latest for @WPReview. worldpoliticsreview.com/us-losing-infl…

The Trump administration’s relative disinterest in sustained high-level engagement with Southeast Asia is undermining Washington’s ability to compete with China in the region, @DerekJGrossman writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/us-losing-infl…

The UAE is breaking not only with OPEC, but also from many of its neighbors. As senior columnist @FridaGhitis writes, the aftershocks will continue to be felt throughout the region long after the Iran war ends. worldpoliticsreview.com/uae-opec-withd…

Recent drone incursions into NATO airspace show the urgency of deploying countermeasures to the EU’s 2000-kilometer border with Russia. worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-drone-d…

Germany weathered one energy shock when Russia invaded Ukraine. Now it faces another, as the Iran war drives global energy prices sharply higher and forces energy policy back to the forefront of Berlin’s agenda. worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-energy…

A slim majority of Southeast Asians now say they would align with China over the United States if forced to choose—a reversal from last year that reflects Washington’s diminishing engagement in the region under Trump. worldpoliticsreview.com/us-losing-infl…

The UAE’s departure from OPEC was part of a broader regional realignment that has been accelerated by the Iran war, senior columnist @FridaGhitis writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/uae-opec-withd…

A drone entered Latvia from Russian airspace last week, exploded at an oil storage facility, and prompted the resignation of the Latvian defense minister. As @RikeFranke writes, it is part of a troubling pattern that European military planners are not addressing with sufficient urgency. worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-drone-d…

Gasoline prices in Germany have climbed to their highest level since the 2022 energy crisis. Merz’s government is responding with short-term fixes that sit uneasily alongside Germany’s long-term commitments, Aaron Allen writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-energy…

Recent revelations about the extent of Russia’s influence operations point to structural vulnerabilities in the media landscape in much of Africa. worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-russia-…

Recent signaling from Beijing suggests the issue of Taiwan will be at the forefront of the agenda at the U.S.-China summit. In her latest column for WPR, Mary Gallagher (@MaryGao) breaks down what a Trump-Xi deal on Taiwan might look like: worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-xi-summi…

Almost a year after proclamations of a “European drone wall,” Europe’s eastern border remains porous and vulnerable to aerial threats—as last week’s drone incursion into Latvia made plain. worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-drone-d…

Germany weathered one energy shock when Russia invaded Ukraine. Now it faces another, as the Iran war drives global energy prices sharply higher and forces energy policy back to the forefront of Berlin’s agenda, Aaron Allen writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/germany-energy…

Between June and October 2024 alone, Russia’s influence operation placed hundreds of articles in West African media outlets. As Rebecca Rottenberg writes, understanding how those operations found a foothold requires understanding the conditions that made it possible. worldpoliticsreview.com/africa-russia-…

Xi has the clear upper hand over Trump heading into their summit this week. As Mary Gallagher (@MaryGao) writes, the key question is how Xi will use that advantage—and Taiwan may be at the top of his agenda. worldpoliticsreview.com/trump-xi-summi…

Western media tends to cover China through the lens of its technological achievements. But as Yaqiu Wang writes for WPR, that coverage misses a China defined not by factories and AI models but by exhaustion, disillusionment and a profound lack of agency. worldpoliticsreview.com/china-west-doe…