The Middle East Stands at a Fork Between Two Futures
Ibrahim Hamidi is a journalist and expert commentator on Middle Eastern politics, currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of Al Majalla magazine. He previously served as head of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation office in Damascus and the Damascus bureau of daily newspaper Al-Hayat. You may follow him on X @ibrahimhamidi.
International Multilateralism in a Non-Hegemonic World
Andrey Kortunov is Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). He is a member of expert and supervisory committees and boards of trustees of several Russian and international organizations. This essay is an adapted and updated version of an earlier report of the same name published by RIAC.
Widening the Scope – Emerging Prominence of Middle Powers in Global Governance
Miras Zhiyenbayev is the Leading Expert at the Department of American and European Studies of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
NATO’s Fragile Rejuvenation
Michael Rühle is a former NATO official. Before his retirement in 2023, he was head of the Climate and Energy Security Section, Emerging Security Challenges Division, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. This essay originally appeared in Internationale Politik Quarterly, the English-language edition of Germany’s leading foreign affairs magazine.
China’s Initiatives and the Development of the SCO
Xiaoyun Qiang is a Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Department of Russian-Central Asian Studies at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), having also formerly served as a Visiting Scholar at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Jiahan Cao is a Senior Researcher at SIIS, having also served as Co-Executive Editor of SIIS’s flagship journal China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies (CQISS) since 2015. This essay is an updated version of the 2023 report entitled “China’s Initiatives and the Development of Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Conceptual Guidance and Cooperative Vision,” published by SIIS.
The Evolution of the ‘QUAD’ – Driving Forces, Impacts, and Prospects
Wei Zongyou is a Professor at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. An earlier version of this essay appeared in Volume 4 of the China International Strategy Review and has been adapted and reprinted with the author’s permission.
The AUKUS Anvil – Promise and Peril
Nick Childs is Senior Fellow for Naval Forces and Maritime Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). This essay was originally published in Survival: Global Politics and Strategy issue 65.5, and reproduced with permission of the International Institute for Strategic Studies ©2023.
The Return of West Africa’s “Men on Horseback”
Professor Adekeye Adebajo is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship in South Africa. He is the author of Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau (2002) and The Eagle and the Springbok: Essays on Nigeria and South Africa (2023). He served on United Nations missions in South Africa, Western Sahara, and Iraq.
BRICS and the Multipolar World
Milena Megre is a Consulting Co-coordinator for Energy Transitions at the G20, having accumulated years of experience in energy policy. She is currently a postgraduate at the University of São Paulo. You may follow her on X @milenamegre. Gustavo Castro Ribeiro is a Ph.D candidate in energy analysis and planning and a Research Fellow at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
NAM 2.0 – The Centrality of the Global South in a New Cold War
Mikhail Byng is a PhD candidate at the University of the West Indies and works in government in Trinidad and Tobago. He has lived, studied, and worked in Southeast Europe and has obtained degrees from the University of Belgrade and the University of Sarajevo. He is an advocate for the creation of a Non-Aligned Movement Youth Organization.