Tunisia, once considered the most successful democratic story of the Arab Spring, is now facing its gravest political crisis since 2011. The recent arrests of opposition figures, lawyers, and activists mark not isolated events but the culmination of a broader and recent authoritarian turn.

In July 2025, the US Congress adopted the Genius Act, a first federal law governing the use of stablecoins, these crypto-assets indexed on the dollar. Unlike bitcoin, which is highly volatile, these "stable tokens" are designed to maintain a permanent 1:1 dollar exchange rate. Supporters say it offers legal clarity, consumer protections and a path for programmable money. Critics say it raises a deeper question :

If issuers are tightly steered into holding cash and short‑term Treasurys, does that make them structural buyers of US debt ? And even more importantly, what are the implications for foreign states and other players ?

Why is the internal armed conflict currently affecting Sudan since 2023, described by the UN as “the world’s most severe humanitarian and displacement crisis at the moment”, so often submerged beneath piles of global news, that media outlets deem more pressing or important?
While millions are displaced, starved and affected by escalating violence, Sudan’s crisis rarely gains the first page on the newspaper.

Peace operations are “children of their time.” As the material and ideational foundations of global order shift, the UN is moving from ambitious state-building to pragmatic stabilization. In an era characterized by growing great power competition and multilateralism under strain, what will be the next operational framework for multilateral interventions?

In Myanmar, 22 million people now require aid, and 16.7 million are facing acute food insecurity. This situation results from the ongoing civil war and the earthquake in March, which worsened an already extremely fragile humanitarian situation. Around 200,000 people are now homeless, 157,000 buildings were damaged, and losses are estimated at $11 billion. What are the reasons behind this situation? What caused the ongoing civil war, and how is it evolving?

Timor-Leste has long pushed for its accession to ASEAN, the biggest international organization of Southeast Asia, now claiming to have reached unprecedented levels of autonomy and economic growth. The final chapter of this decade-long saga of the country might seem insignificant to the rest of the world, but the United States and China are discreetly keeping an eye on the situation: whose friend will Timor-Leste be?