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Asia & Pacific

Stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Rim, the Asia–Pacific holds the world’s fastest-growing economies and its most consequential rivalries. Regional cooperation deepens in some areas while maritime and technological competition intensifies in others. GCIRD studies these intersecting trends and their implications for global order.

How Pope Leo XIV Redefines Vatican Political Interference

April 25, 2026

Strategic Alloys and Advanced Materials in Military Power: From Titanium and Superalloys to Hypersonics, High‑Entropy Alloys, and Circular Minerals

April 25, 2026

Four Futures of Work: How China Disrupts the Global AI Labor Framework

April 25, 2026

The war imposed on Iran and its impact on ASEAN

April 22, 2026

Security Without Command, Energy Without OPEC: China’s Strategy in the Persian Gulf

China is not trying to become the Persian Gulf’s next security patron. Instead, it offers a new model, which is security without command, based on energy continuity, infrastructure, and diplomatic optionality. The result isn’t a Chinese victory over the US, but the steady erosion of the assumption that only American power can define Persian Gulf security.

Security Without Command, Energy Without OPEC: China’s Strategy in the Persian Gulf

How Pope Leo XIV Redefines Vatican Political Interference

Four Futures of Work: How China Disrupts the Global AI Labor Framework

The war imposed on Iran and its impact on ASEAN

Inside the Iran Crisis: Escalation, Survival, Spillover

The Fracturing Nuclear Order and the Return of Strategic Uncertainty

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The Pacific’s Geoeconomic Exposure to the Persian Gulf Shock

The Pacific Island countries are not insulated from the war by distance. Their heavy dependence on imported fuel, limited storage, fragile shipping links,...

April 6, 2026

Inside the Iran Crisis: Escalation, Survival, Spillover

The Iran regional escalation is reshaping power balances across the Middle East and beyond. This in-depth analysis examines regime survival, proxy warfare, energy...

March 3, 2026

China’s Arctic Role in a Securitising Region

China is tempering its Arctic rhetoric, shifting from grand connectivity ambitions to climate-science messaging and selective partnership offers. But Nordic and EU governments...

February 24, 2026

Japan’s New Mandate and Asia’s Search for Balance

A decisive election mandate gives Tokyo rare political time to pursue domestic renewal and a more capable security posture. The central question is...

February 23, 2026

The Geopolitics of Digital Vulnerability

Cybersecurity depends on coordination. As institutional restructuring and strategic reprioritization reshape Washington’s posture, the resilience of the international cyber order is increasingly uncertain.

February 19, 2026

The Fracturing Nuclear Order and the Return of Strategic Uncertainty

For decades, the United States anchored a nuclear order that restrained proliferation and managed great power rivalry. As arms control collapses and allies...

by editorial

February 19, 2026

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

Growing turbulence in the maritime and space domains is reshaping strategic competition, as disruptive tactics, fragile infrastructure and shifting industrial power undermine long-standing...

December 7, 2025

From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

China controls nearly all heavy rare earth processing and most of the refining that turns raw ore into magnets for jets, submarines, and...

December 7, 2025

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

Johannesburg’s G20 summit marked a turn toward treating artificial intelligence as part of a broader development and infrastructure project led by emerging economies....

December 7, 2025

Long Rates in a Fragmented Global Economy

Global long-term interest rates are rising as inflation proves sticky, foreign yields climb, and the United States economy shows more resilience than expected....

December 6, 2025

Asia & Pacific

How Pope Leo XIV Redefines Vatican Political Interference

Strategic Alloys and Advanced Materials in Military Power: From Titanium and Superalloys to Hypersonics, High‑Entropy Alloys, and Circular Minerals

Four Futures of Work: How China Disrupts the Global AI Labor Framework

The war imposed on Iran and its impact on ASEAN

Security Without Command, Energy Without OPEC: China’s Strategy in the Persian Gulf

Security Without Command, Energy Without OPEC: China’s Strategy in the Persian Gulf

How Pope Leo XIV Redefines Vatican Political Interference

Four Futures of Work: How China Disrupts the Global AI Labor Framework

The war imposed on Iran and its impact on ASEAN

Inside the Iran Crisis: Escalation, Survival, Spillover

The Fracturing Nuclear Order and the Return of Strategic Uncertainty

The Pacific’s Geoeconomic Exposure to the Persian Gulf Shock

Inside the Iran Crisis: Escalation, Survival, Spillover

China’s Arctic Role in a Securitising Region

Japan’s New Mandate and Asia’s Search for Balance

The Geopolitics of Digital Vulnerability

The Fracturing Nuclear Order and the Return of Strategic Uncertainty

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

Long Rates in a Fragmented Global Economy

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