Member Articles

s significant mineral producers, Southern African countries could benefit from rising global demand. This article argues that the Southern African Development Community should adopt anticipatory governance to best capture those benefits.

The EU and Mercosur continue negotiations on a joint trade agreement. This article focuses on the impasse between the EU’s unilateral sustainability regulations and Mercosur’s demand that the EU provide support for reaching sustainability standards.

This argues for setting up a new multilateral forum for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It notes trends toward greater cooperation in the MENA region and how a MENA-led forum could institutionalize regional cooperative engagement.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) held its first association-wide military exercise without any external participants. This explores the purposes and significance of the event.

Operating through multilateral forums and groupings, such as the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation, middle and major powers, are increasingly taking on expanded roles in pursuing sustainable development goals within the Indo-Pacific.

International relations experts debate two approaches to building a normative framework for space. Hard law relates to binding international agreements, and soft law consists of nonbinding measures. This report explores the potential of soft law.

The U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Program Agency is exploring adapting a system of sensors to detect pandemic outbreaks. This article describes the challenges to adopting this system globally.

Leaders announced plans for the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMMEC) at the G20 summit. This discusses IMMEC’s ambitious goals, regional and global dynamics informing this plan’s development, and the next steps.

Canada-India relations have deteriorated following Canadian officials’ assertions of India’s complicity in an assassination in Canada. This discusses three core issue areas in the bilateral economic relationship: trade, investment, and higher education.

This discusses digital governance standards between the United States and the European Union and traces the data flow regulation history between the two that lead to the current Data Privacy Framework and the significant challenges the framework faces.