NATO should expand its strategic role beyond Europe to counter China

A comprehensive overview of ongoing and historical armed conflicts, military engagements and geopolitical tensions shaping the world today.

The complex and evolving relationship between the United States and China, encompassing diplomatic, military, economic, and technological dimensions, including tensions over Taiwan, competition in the Indo-Pacific, AI development, and broader questions of global power and deterrence.

Study and practice of how sovereign states, international institutions, and non-state actors interact across borders. Encompasses diplomacy, negotiation, alliances, and conflict — the foundational domain through which global order is constructed, contested, and maintained.

Overview of major milestones in the evolving relationship between the United States and NATO.

The alliance's cooperation with Western partners: collective defence and deterrence, defence-industrial and technology investment, burden-sharing and the coordination of military support among member states and allied governments.

Security arrangement under which states commit to treat an attack on one as an attack on all, obliging joint response. Underpins alliances such as NATO and provisions of the UN Charter, making shared deterrence and coordinated military planning central instruments of international stability.