Arab states in the Middle East are concluding that Israel is now the biggest threat to stability in the region. Read Sanam Vakil's (@chmenap.bsky.social) analysis following Israel's airstrike against Hamas leaders in Qatar in @theguardian.com ⤵️

China is advancing where the US is retreating. James Kynge and Samir Puri join Chatham House’s weekly international affairs podcast. Apple: apple.co/3KjBxp5 Spotify: bit.ly/4mcpnLY Listen in full⤵️

Türkiye’nin en yetkin İran uzmanlarından Dr. Gülriz Şen ile İsrail-İran Savaşı’nı ve olası sonuçlarını konuştuk. Gülriz Şen: “İran ile ABD Nükleer Görüşmelere Yeniden Dönebilir” tepav.org.tr/tr/haberler/...

Unravelling of the trade legal order: enforcement, defection and the crisis of the WTO dispute settlement system url:https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/101/3/1103/8100243

“This is the appetizer course as far as Vladimir Putin is concerned. He wants the entire meal." Carnegie’s Stewart Patrick weighed in on President Trump’s willingness to underestimate adversaries – including Putin – for @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/05/01/n...

Markets have served as a constraint on Donald Trump, most directly by threatening to push up interest rates or the cost of government borrowing, forcing the president to back down.

“What Trump wants is a world managed by strongmen who work together—not always harmoniously but always purposefully—to impose a shared vision of order on the rest of the world,” writes Stacie Goddard.

By exempting critical minerals from his tariffs, Donald Trump has demonstrated the fragile interdependence underpinning modern economies – and provided a wake-up call for the EU and UK.

As Ikenberry (2017) noted, previous world orders in ancient and modern periods were subverted by external, hostile revisionist powers. But, for this time, the President sitting in the Oval Office, does his best to devastate the global order the US created. www.jstor.org/stable/44823...

COLUMN: The economy is slowing down - and Saudi Arabia is hiking oil output to teach a lesson to OPEC cheaters. Cynical oil investors should be forgiven for having a case of déjà vu: it happened too in 1997, and it ended badly for prices. @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

My latest article in International Spectator: “US Structural Power and Oil: Debilitating the Iranian Oil Industry" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....