international-relations

Dr. Neelam Dighe* & Mr. Somesh Akolkar** ABSTRACT India today hosts one of the largest and most heterogeneous refugee populations in the world, yet it remains without a dedicated national statute governing the recognition, treatment, or protection of refugees. India is not a party to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees or its 1967 Protocol, and refugees on Indian soil conti…

President says move is based on ‘very good relationship with Kim Jong-un’ but US military officials have said Ukraine war is boosting regime’s combat capabilities Donald Trump has said he is scaling back joint US military drills with South Korea aimed at deterring North Korea, despite military officials from both countries warning that Kim Jong-un’s regime was learning new battlefield tactics fro…

Europe and Nato have known for years that interceptor production can’t keep up with demand and now disaster looms, putting us all in danger “Invincible.” That was how Vladimir Putin described Russia’s latest generation of ballistic missiles in 2018 . In 2022 he would unleash this arsenal to strike across Ukraine, hitting command centres, critical infrastructure and airfields. Then, in 2023, Ukrai…

The recent advancement of China in Latin America suggests that the traditional hegemony of the United States could be declining. The purpose of this research is to assess the degree in which the American hegemonic position in this region has diminished and what implications this likely phenomenon could eventually bring. Several dimensions of the notion of Hegemony are evaluated such as economic, …

New bridge makes it easier to dodge satellite surveillance, investigation argues, as Ukrainian president warns Russia is to receive 30,000 more North Korean soldiers Russia and North Korea are close to completing a bridge that will form the first road link ever built between them, amid concerns the two increasingly close allies are creating infrastructure to boost military cooperation in the Ukra…

Two stories this week, connected by one word: open. A Chinese open-weight model helped touch off the worst week for chip stocks since April, as investors finally asked what $725 billion in AI capex is buying. Days later, when an autonomous agent breached Hugging Face, its own defenders were locked out by US frontier-model guardrails and ran the forensics on an open Chinese model instead. On both …

Over the past decade, the UK and the countries of the EU have experienced very similar, and deeply troubling, security challenges as a result of the military threat from Russia, disengagement and hostility from the US, and the possibility of economic coercion from China. The UK’s 2025 National Security Strategy specifies a clear way forward, indicating a need for what it calls a “rebalancing” of …

Between 2017 and 2026, the United States government under Donald Trump orchestrated and advanced a systematic campaign of factually-false economic and security claims against its NATO allies, with America's closest ally and largest foreign market—Canada—as a primary target. This paper argues that this campaign is not a product of analytical error or political bluster but that the evidence is moun…

the Atlantic Council Task Force on Greenland
5/13/2026

After US rhetoric about taking control of Greenland exacerbated tensions between Washington and European allies in January, the US, Greenland, and Denmark opened discussions about the US presence in the autonomous territory. In parallel, the Atlantic Council's Task Force on Greenland brought together transatlantic expertise to explore the underlying issues and find a productive path forward. The …

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