Global Watch

Mozambique's liquefied natural gas (LNG) was meant to be a pillar of the next global LNG supply wave. Instead, domestic instability, economic challenges, and contractual disputes have turned it into a test of whether large-scale gas projects can deliver in high-risk environments. Its challenges highlight a growing need to reassess where future LNG capacity will come from.   Major Gas Project Faces Disruption The Mozambique LNG project is ...

Sudan’s civil war is no longer confined to its own borders. What began as a power struggle in Khartoum is increasingly destabilizing neighboring Chad through refugee flows, cross-border violence, ethnic tensions, and allegations of foreign-backed arms trafficking.   If Chad is pulled deeper into the conflict, the consequences could reverberate across the Sahel and Central Africa.   Sudan’s Cycles of Civil War  ...

Nuclear security in the post-Soviet world is no longer defined by a shared Soviet legacy. From Russia's emphasis on nuclear deterrence to Central Asia's growing focus on safety, civilian energy, and non-proliferation, former Soviet republics are pursuing increasingly different approaches to managing nuclear risks.   Turkmenistan's recent hosting of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) workshop offers a glimpse into how these changi...

Germany's debate over Russian gas is no longer just about energy. It has become a political fault line touching on economic competitiveness, support for Ukraine, relations with Russia, and the future direction of German foreign policy.   The issue returned to the spotlight after Markus Frohnmaier, foreign policy spokesman for Alternative for Germany (AfD), met senior Russian officials in St. Petersburg and called for the Nord Stream gas pi...

Every few months, Europe sends satellites into space from one of the poorest corners of the French Republic.   The rockets rise from Kourou, in French Guiana, a small territory on South America’s northern coast that France once used as a prison colony and now uses as a key space launch site. The business brings in money and strategic power, not for locals, but for Paris.   Outside the shiny, high-tech spaceport, life looks ver...