Yemen’s long-running civil war between the internationally recognized Republic of Yemen Government and the Iran-backed Houthi movement diminished in 2022, but a permanent solution will likely remain elusive in 2023. Two negotiating tracks – one led by U.N. mediators and a separate Oman-brokered Saudi Arabia-Houthi dialogue – have failed to …

U.S. and allied policy toward Iran will grow even more hardline in 2023 as the various threats posed by Tehran have become more acute, particularly its alliance with Moscow. Long-stalled negotiations to revive the 2015 multilateral Iran nuclear agreement are unlikely to resume, and Iran will advance its nuclear program …

The emergence of new centres of power in Eurasia has entailed a re-reading of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book which drew an analogy between the Eurasian supercontinent and a grand chessboard. Following the global financial crisis of the last few years, countries like China, Russia and India have started to project greater …