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Recent briefings below
Recent Briefings
Today on The Globe Desk: We track the expansion of parallel financial and transit networks across the Global South, from a massive statistical reconfiguration of Ethiopia's economy to new commercial s…
Washington's enforcement of trade penalties on South Africa and kinetic U.S. strikes in the Persian Gulf underscore a shift in global security, moving beyond diplomatic pressure into direct economic a…
Today on The Globe Desk: Great-power competition is accelerating the fragmentation of trade preferences and regional security networks, forcing middle powers across the Global South to build pragmatic…
Today on The Globe Desk: We track the ongoing fallout from the G20 summit and Senegal's IMF standoff, alongside escalating Global South attempts to bypass Western debt restructuring and the accelerati…
Physical assets and chokepoints are rapidly becoming the primary domains of great-power leverage, moving conflict out of diplomatic channels and into the real world. Today we trace this shift through …
The escalation of kinetic sea-denial tactics in the Strait of Hormuz sets the tone for today's briefing, overshadowing traditional diplomatic channels. We also examine a new trans-continental rail lin…
Resource-rich developing nations are increasingly leveraging great-power competition to secure domestic processing infrastructure, moving beyond traditional raw-export models. In today's edition, we a…
Trans-Pacific commercial ties are rapidly decoupling from traditional Atlantic hubs, led by Latin America's expanding free-trade architecture with Asia. In today's briefing, we also break down new dem…
Despite Vietnam's surging GDP, structural youth unemployment is accelerating across Southeast Asia as Chinese supply chains displace legacy manufacturing. In today's edition, we explore this labor dis…
The first direct peace talks between Nordic leaders and Vladimir Putin mark a stark departure from the post-2022 strategy of isolating the Kremlin. In today's briefing, we trace the ripple effects of …