Cocaine production and use are at record levels worldwide. West Africa has become a major transit hub, where traffickers exploit weak states, under-resourced enforcement and high-level corruption.

In 2016 Christopher Steele, a former MI6 operative who had moved into business intelligence, compiled a now notorious dossier alleging collusion between Donald Trump, then a US presidential candidate, and the Kremlin. Its claims proved unfounded.

The Diploma in Intelligence and Global Threats (DiReM) course at Sciences Po Saint-Germain-en-Laye – known as the ‘Malotru Diploma' or ‘School for Spies' – sets out to train the next generation of French intelligence agents.

AI competition with China is driving the United States' new fusion of military power, industrial planning and private capital. Countries are lining up behind the US strategy.

In the name of Polish-Soviet friendship, the postwar communist regimes long preferred to keep quiet about the ethnic cleansing that led to the disappearance of the Polish and Ukrainian minorities living on either side of their shared border.

Once a patchwork of peoples, the borderlands of Poland and Ukraine grew increasingly tense before the second world war. The war brought mass displacements that transformed their ethnic makeup.

Gustavo Petro, Colombia's first leftwing president, promised reform after decades of violence and inequality. Will his successor, to be sworn in this August, continue his programme or seek to reverse it?

After Viktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary, Tel Aviv lost its staunchest ally in the EU. It may have found a replacement in Slovenia's new rightwing government.

Anti-Zionism is a minority position among France's Jewish population, but since the assault on Gaza began, it's grown. For some, resisting the conflation of Jewishness with Israel has become imperative.

ELNET, a pro-Israel lobbying network, presents itself as fostering dialogue but has shifted significantly to the right since its creation in 2007. Nowhere is its influence clearer than in Germany.

Long tolerated as a stabilising force, the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood's capacity to mobilise support has prompted the regime to outlaw it.

Initially welcomed, Mali's 2020 coup has created deepening insecurity: with ongoing jihadist insurgency in the north and the capital encircled, the balance of power across the Sahel is shifting.

In July 2024 Keir Starmer promised to clean up British politics. Last month voters delivered an unsparing verdict.

Having accused five Chinese refineries of buying Iranian oil, the US Treasury on 24 April put them on its ever-growing list of sanctioned companies. On the face of it, routine enough. For decades Washington has asserted the right to decide who can trade with the rest of the world, and everyone else has acquiesced to its diktats for fear of being shut out of an international financial system tethered to the dollar. But this time it didn't go according to plan. Beijing, which had previously (…)