Trump’s primary challenges to his Republican foes make GOP nervous in run up to midtermsClodagh Harrington, University College Cork
Methanol, pistachios and cement: the other Iranian exports being choked by the warFarhang Morady, University of Westminster
How the world sees Donald Trump: surveys show other countries see US president as ‘unreliable’ and ‘dangerous’Paul Whiteley, University of Essex
Putin and Xi: Russian president’s China trip shows for the second time in a week how rapidly the world order is changingStefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
Donald Trump left Beijing empty-handed – but avoided something worseKerry Brown, King's College London
Trump’s ‘cordial’ Beijing trip has not changed superpower rivalryMaria Ryan, University of Nottingham
First Trump, now Putin – all roads lead to Xi JinpingJonathan Este, The ConversationEditor's newsletter
Xi warned Trump against the ‘Thucydides Trap’ – here’s what ancient Greece can tell us about US-China relationsNeville Morley, University of Exeter
Xi and Putin tout ‘new type’ of world order in Beijing – but is their alliance really that strong?Marcin Kaczmarski, University of Glasgow
The Epstein Files: the AI podcast that sounds like journalism but isn’tKathryn McDonald, Bournemouth University
Europe’s dilemma – to use China’s turbines to meet its renewable targets or notChee Meng Tan, University of Nottingham
Trump-Xi summit: in a high-stakes meeting the two leaders can’t afford to misread each otherNicholas John Wheeler, University of Birmingham; BASIC and Marcus Holmes, William & Mary
Trump-Xi summit: US president says he will discuss arms sales to Taiwan – breaking decades of US policyAndrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University
Why Putin will have been watching the Trump-Xi summit nervouslyStefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
Xi-Trump summit: reset for US-Chinese relations but tension over Taiwan remainsJonathan Este, The ConversationEditor's newsletter
How severe has the economic impact of the Iran war been for the Gulf states?Emilie Rutledge, The Open University
Why the Caspian Sea has become so important in both the Ukraine and Iran warsBasil Germond, Lancaster University
Europe is rearming itself without addressing the political consequencesRichard Youngs, University of Warwick
Europe is rearming itself without addressing the political consequencesRichard Youngs, University of Warwick
How Venezuela has – and hasn’t – changed since Maduro’s captureJulia Buxton, Liverpool John Moores University
Iran war has become a lesson in how power really worksBamo Nouri, City St George's, University of London and Inderjeet Parmar, City St George's, University of London
China has played a key role in the Iran war – and will continue to do soTom Harper, University of East London
How Pakistan became the primary mediator between the US and IranNatasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex
US declares war in Iran ‘over’ to avoid row with Congress over whether it was legalAndrew Gawthorpe, Leiden University
Where Iranians are going under fire – a real-time picture of displacementFrancisco Rowe, University of Liverpool; Carmen Cabrera, University of Liverpool, and Elisabetta Pietrostefani, University of Liverpool
Shutting Iran’s oil wells may be straightforward – but the consequences are notNima Shokri, United Nations University; Technical University of Hamburg and Martin J. Blunt, Imperial College London
‘Skimpflation’: how the Strait of Hormuz is linked to your lasagne – and other everyday goodsErhan Kilincarslan, University of Huddersfield
The Iran war has brought many old Gulf faultlines to the fore – and is creating new onesToby Matthiesen, University of Bristol
UAE’s departure from Opec tells a story about the limited future of oil productionAdi Imsirovic, University of Oxford
Could the Strait of Malacca be the next global flashpoint?Gokcay Balci, University of Leeds and Ebru Surucu-Balci, University of Bradford
Council elections take place for some Palestinians – but continuing mass displacement makes Gaza poll farcicalAnne Irfan, UCL
Gaza: six months of ceasefire have left the territory in rubble and little vision for the future of its peopleRafeef Ziadah, King's College London
Trump uses assassination attempt to justify his assault on first amendment rights to free speechEliza Bechtold, University of Oxford
40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around ChernobylNick Dunn, Lancaster University
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – an extraordinary portrait of young Russian journalists fighting to report the truthJulie Curtis, University of Oxford
EU enlargement is often deeply political – as Ukraine and Montenegro showIveri Kekenadze Gustafsson, Lund University
Middle East conflict looks increasingly like a war nobody can winBamo Nouri, City St George's, University of London and Inderjeet Parmar, City St George's, University of London
Could the Strait of Malacca be the next global flashpoint?Gokcay Balci, University of Leeds and Ebru Surucu-Balci, University of Bradford
Middle East conflict: how the US and Iran could step back from the brinkDavid J. Galbreath, University of Bath
Ukraine: Zelensky upbeat on US deal – but Davos showed the US president to be an unreliable allyStefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
US foreign policy has taken a radical turn in Trump’s first year back in officeDavid Hastings Dunn, University of Birmingham
US action against Greenland would undermine Nato, but now is not the time to panicDavid Hastings Dunn, University of Birmingham; Mark Webber, University of Birmingham, and Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
Iran war shows how AI speeds up military ‘kill chains’Craig Jones, Newcastle University and Helen M Kinsella, University of Minnesota
Why the next escalation in the Iran conflict could be between the US and TurkeyBen Seymour, Nottingham Trent University and Eszter Simon, Nottingham Trent University
The Middle East conflict has swiftly exposed economic vulnerability in the regionEmilie Rutledge, The Open University
These are shaky times for oil markets. An expert explains what a prolonged war will mean for pricesAdi Imsirovic, University of Oxford
Oil price escalation could help China grasp more green global leadershipChee Meng Tan, University of Nottingham
What international law says about the Israeli strikes on Iranian oil facilitiesSaeed Bagheri, University of Reading
I watched a simulated oil spill in the Indian Ocean – here’s how island and coastal countries worked together to avoid disasterKate Sullivan de Estrada, University of Oxford
Decoding hints that Xi Jinping may be under pressure to relinquish some of his powerChee Meng Tan, University of Nottingham
Israel is exploiting the vacuum left by southern Syria’s sectarian clashes and a weak stateRob Geist Pinfold, King's College London
Japan and South Korea can show governments how to compete with China and USRobyn Klingler-Vidra, King's College London
Trump has shown he will backtrack on tariffs. What does that say about how to wage a trade war?Antonio Navas, University of Sheffield
Trump’s obsession with trade deficits has no basis in economics. And it’s a bad reason for tariffsNigel Driffield, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
China-US trade war: the next 90 days are a big deal for Beijing as it seeks long-term solutionsChee Meng Tan, University of Nottingham
As Sri Lanka’s economy pivots from tourism, it’s well placed to benefit from global trade and geopolitical jostling – new researchHemamali Tennakoon, Brunel University of London
