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Recent Briefings
For the first time since the collapse of the Islamabad Memorandum, the US-Iran conflict has resulted in American casualties. Today's briefing opens with the deaths of two US soldiers following Iranian…
The US-Iran conflict has crossed a dangerous new threshold today, with Iranian missile strikes hitting US-allied nations in the Middle East for the first time. We are also examining a stark milestone …
We recently tracked Beijing's white paper outlining a new vision for global governance, and today we're seeing that framework materialize in the technology sphere. Twenty-nine nations, primarily from …
The US-Iran conflict we've been tracking has hit a breaking point. Tehran formally voided the June 17 peace agreement and declared an 'existential war', throwing global energy markets into immediate t…
The economic fallout from the US-Iran conflict in the Strait of Hormuz continues to ripple outward. Today's briefing features a new analysis on how that escalation is disproportionately hitting the Gl…
The world's development agenda is facing a severe reality check today. Two separate UN reports warn of a massive AI governance and 'compute' gap exacerbating global inequality, while another confirms …
Major financial institutions are officially factoring the Strait of Hormuz conflict into their macroeconomic models today, with both the IMF and ADB downgrading 2026 growth forecasts in response to th…
Tehran's formal closure of the Strait of Hormuz today transforms a regional military exchange into an immediate global energy crisis. While those US-Iran strikes dominate the headlines, we are also ch…
The normalization of AI-driven warfare and a record number of interconnected conflicts have pushed global peacefulness to its lowest point in history, according to the newly released 2026 index. Along…
We are tracking a widening economic optimism gap between emerging and developed markets, driven largely by diverging demographic fundamentals. At the same time, the fragile US-Iran ceasefire has colla…