With one of the most important cross-border water-sharing treaties ever signed still on hold, what are the chances that Islamabad and New Delhi open talks on the Indus Waters Treaty, and what forum could help bring about a new diplomatic dialogue?

Water is no longer a local or technical issue. It is a question of global stability, and the world's institutions need to start treating it as one.

Examining Syrian refugee populations in neighboring countries and the European Union, as well as the challenges faced by host governments and the al-Sharaa regime in inducing them to return and help rebuild a country devastated by civil war.

The Hormuz crisis is pushing the global system to the brink, exposing not only geopolitical fault lines but the moral contradictions embedded in the international order itself.

The Court in The Hague can issue judgments, but the world must decide whether they matter.

What happens when the principal architect of the post-war order begins quietly dismantling the scaffolding it once built?

GONGOs – state-backed or state-friendly NGOs – are increasingly influential in UN mechanisms, drowning out legitimate human rights voices and fueling geopolitical tensions in Europe and beyond.

Cambodia’s signing of the High Seas Treaty sends a strong message that ocean conservation is not the exclusive domain of coastal giants.

There are alarming signs that history is about to repeat as domestic political factions position themselves for a return to civil conflict in South Sudan.

Global geopolitics are being remade in real time by the Trump administration, and the lessons aren’t lost on longtime US allies in the Asia-Pacific.

Exploring the reasons why Washington remains on the outside looking in on one of the United Nation’s most successful global standards.

Tasked with a growing list of global crises, the UN must get serious about communicating its results before donors start to lose patience.

The Gaza and Ukraine wars are compounding institutional inertia at the United Nations and further highlighting the need for sweeping reforms.

While the bloc initially viewed this conflict through a security lens, economic necessity has since compelled a foreign policy refocus.

Tracking the most vulnerable and food-insecure regions in the year ahead.

Exploring the forces driving a recent crackdown against opposition figures in Cambodia.

Amid deadlock at the highest levels of the UN, it’s the smaller, non-permanent members of the UNSC which now have an opportunity to take a more proactive role.

And so far the United Nations Security Council has failed to rise to the challenge.

In a world ravaged by COVID-19, multilateralism is the only path leading back to global prosperity.

Few alternatives exist for the systems that power modern human society. But that doesn’t mean these systems can’t be vastly improved in the post COVID-19 new normal.