A collaboration between London Politica and South Asia Foresight Network (SAFN), this security profile examines security and separatism in the Pakistani Province of Balochistan in the face of increasingly prominent violence.

This series will cover China’s military development overseas, in relation to its foreign policy. The economic success of China in the past decades has reignited its foreign ambition, and slowly pushed the country into a geopolitical competition with the West. The series seeks to investigate how China is developing its military capabilities globally, and how its developments affect the global balance of power.

This mini-series will cover China’s complicated relationship with water. There are both major scarcities and over-abundances across the nations. The way it manages this is an insight into how the nation functions, and how its government is dealing with one of the most pressing issues of our time; climate change.

Southeast Asia is among the most vulnerable regions to the effect of climate change and will continue to face many challenges in the near future. This report evaluates how climate change has affected the Southeast Asian region in the past two decades, their implications, and possible mitigation measures.

The Central Asia and Caucasus team look into the broad range of challenges and risks facing countries across the region.

Over the last several years, Russia published new strategic documents mentioning the Arctic, reopened old soviet bases, and engaged in big publicity stunts aimed at demonstrating its power in the region.

A major shift in the Russian Arctic is underway. As climate change transforms the region and conflict along Russia’s western border persists, Vladimir Putin is increasingly looking to his thawing northern border to support his isolated economy. Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) from the Baltic Sea flows to China through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) for the first time, just one facet of a rapidly expanding Russian economic and military presence in the Arctic.

Armenia has undergone a number of political, economic, and security shifts, including a ‘Velvet Revolution’ into a parliamentary system in 2018, the shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a war in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020, as well as a large influx of refugees from the territory following its final incorporation into Azerbaijan in September 2023.

In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU and the G7 introduced a $60 price cap on seaborne Russian oil; this analysis article looks at the effectiveness and overall impact of the cap on the war effort.

The 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in October has significant implications for foreign affairs and the future of the great power competition between China and the US., with Xi Jinping highlighting China’s intention to integrate AI and other advanced technologies, aiming to establish a strong system of strategic deterrence.