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Ties to trusted partners and allies have become central for the United States to win the AI race. AI leadership is measured less by who builds the most powerful models than by whose technology stack and governance model is adopted globally. The Trump administration’s AI Action Plan makes this logic explicit by tying the diffusion of American technology to international engagement with willing partners and the...

Amid rising power politics and a weakening multilateral system, Agenda 2030 is faltering. Emerging powers must forge alliances to revive SDG progress beyond 2030. The pursuit of sustainable futures as outlined in the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development has never been more urgent—or more politically contested. At the same time, the ability of the international community to jointly shape a cooperative multipolar world seems to be...

Securing cyberspace extends beyond the protection of ICT networks and systems to include threats that compromise individual safety, digital rights, and the integrity of online spaces. Cybersecurity threats are framed not only as unauthorised access to devices and networks, such as hacking, DDoS attacks, spyware, and data breaches, but also as harms arising from online activities, including doxxing, cyberbullying, hate speech, cyber-extortion, harassment, censorship, disinformation, biased...

As much of the Middle East remains fractured, the Gulf is leveraging aviation, maritime power, infrastructure, and digital networks to transform connectivity into a new source of geopolitical influence   In May 2011, at the height of the Arab Spring, US President Barack Obama stood at the State Department and spoke to the aspirations of a generation in revolt. Surveying a Middle East convulsed by upheaval, he observed...

This brief is part of the series: Raisina Edit 2026     In future conflicts, the side that better prepares its people—not just its machines—will hold the advantage   The modern military-industrial complex has a preoccupation with ‘Metal’. Strategic mass is measured in armoured fleets, airframes, and the processing power of autonomous systems. And if the recent war in Ukraine has taught us anything, it is that mass is essential....

In an era of strategic rivalry and fractured consensus, the future of multilateralism lies not in restoring hegemony but in building institutions capable of working amid contestation   Multilateralism is not collapsing; it is being contested. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned in January, “Global problems will not be solved by one power calling the shots… Nor will they be solved by two powers carving the world into...