The World Today

Our spring issue is here!📖 Explore stories on the Trump effect from Venezuela and Iran to trade and diplomacy, how the US can ease China's grip on critical minerals, the far right's looming challenge to European unity - and much more. 🇺🇸🇨🇳🇪🇺 Read here: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

‘A fractured Europe led by squabbling nationalist governments would become easy prey for Moscow and Washington.’ 🇪🇺 With parliamentary elections due in Hungary this month, @NathalieTocci discusses how victory for Viktor Orbán and other far-right figures could fracture Europe further. chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Canadian politician and diplomat @BobRae48 tells @higginsmike how PM @MarkJCarney's Davos speech on middle power cooperation has heralded a hardening of attitudes to trade, defence and the future of Greenland. 🇨🇦 Read the full interview below: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

‘If the regime survives in some form, Tehran will be compelled to seek a new strategy to deter its adversaries.’ @SanamVakil (of @CH_MENAP) on the possible outcomes following the US-Israel war on Iran: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

In our latest issue, journalist and author @yilingliu95 tells Isabella Wilkinson about her new book documenting life behind China’s ‘Great Firewall’ and the creative ways its users circumvent cycles of censorship. 🇨🇳 Read the full story here ⤵️ chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Leaders from across the world will attend the @wto Ministerial Conference this week to discuss the challenges facing the multilateral trading system. In our new issue, @davidlubin explores some of these challenges, including the economic impact of the US's unwillingness to uphold the global order: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

‘Khartoum’ is available to watch on now on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

In our winter issue, @brahimsnoopy spoke with @IonaAllan_ about ‘Khartoum’, the documentary he co-directed, which explores the lives and memories of five people exiled by the civil war in Sudan. 🇸🇩 Read the story here: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Iran’s strikes and Trump’s Gaza peace plan show Saudi Arabia, the UAE and other Gulf states that they should no longer rely on America for security guarantees, write @NeilQuilliam1 & Kristian Alexander. chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Have US-Israeli strikes dealt a final blow to the Iranian regime? However this war ends, it will leave Iran weaker and less able to exert regional influence, writes @SanamVakil (of @CH_MENAP): chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

@AndrewDormanIA @DSD_Kings @navalhistorian @NavyLookout @AWenham1 @AWenham1 @WarshipsIFR @warshipworld @seawaves_mag @UKForcesTracker @UKDefJournal @R_Schulenburg @womenindefence @Strategy_Bridge @wavellroom

How does the continued language of Britain being Europe’s leading military power hold when Germany is committed to much higher levels of defence spending? 🇬🇧 Explore @AndrewDormanIA's (of @DSD_Kings) take on the UK's choices in the run up to its long-promised Defence Investment Plan: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

'The same system that once allowed Tehran to project influence across the Middle East exposed Iran to coordinated pressure from Israel as well as strong opposition from across the Arab world,' writes @SanamVakil for @TheWorldToday. chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

'The strategy designed to keep war away from Iran’s borders has produced a strategic boomerang and drawn the Islamic Republic into the very confrontation it tried for decades to avoid,' writes @SanamVakil for @TheWorldToday. chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

'The challenge facing Brazil is to show that resisting US dominance does not require tolerating authoritarianism next door' Feliciano de Sá Guimarães (@CEBRIonline) on Lula's strategic dilemma for @TheWorldToday chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Piece in @ChathamHouse's @TheWorldToday by @AndrewDormanIA of @DSD_Kings, who has written extensively on Britain's post-war defence reviews, turns his attention to the latest, suggesting four options for the government "None... is easy or unproblematic." chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Spring is here, as is our newest issue.☀️ Read about the Trump effect from Venezuela and Iran to trade and diplomacy, the far right's looming challenge European unity, why this year's Eurovision is set to be the most divisive ever - and much more: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Tehran’s decades-long cultivation of the ‘axis of resistance’ led to the war with US and Israel that it long sought to avoid – whatever the outcome, the regime is weakened, writes @SanamVakil for @TheWorldToday. chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

Wonder what Lula’s response to Maduro’s capture could cost him and Brazil dearly? Read this excellent ⁦@TheWorldToday⁩ take by Feliciano da Sa Guimaraes. chathamhouse.org/publications/t…

As Lucy Ash reports in her excellent piece for @TheWorldToday, the confidentiality of confession is even in doubt as the Russian Orthodox Church reinforces its support for Putin's war upon Ukraine👇

Run, don't walk, to your nearest mobile device. @ChathamHouse's latest issue of @TheWorldToday is out today with articles including this excellent one by Jose Fernandez on critical minerals and China: chathamhouse.org/publications/t…