From Geo to Astropolitics: How Taiwan Builds Outer Space Missions Amid Geopolitical Tensions
Yi-Ting Chang, RSAA Travel Awards 2024 recipient with guest host Sze Miller
1 October 2025, 14.00 BST Online
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Kazakhstan’s New “Middle Power” Myth
Charles J Sullivan, PhD is a scholar on Central Asia and the author of Leaders of the Nation: Kazakhstan during the Twilight of the Nazarbayev Era and the Russo-Ukrainian War Kazakhstan is a developing country with substantial promise. It is a major oil exporter and its territory holds important rare earth deposits. Kazakhstan’s population of…
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Maldives Strategy in the Indo-Pacific
Dr Athaulla A Rasheed is a former diplomat for the Maldives Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is now an academic in the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University President Dr Mohamed Muizzu’s October 2024 visit to India has heightened the developing relationship between Maldives and India. This favours the Indo-Pacific strategy that seeks to…
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The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island will Dictate the Global Future
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. He is the author of the newly published book The Taiwan Story. In mid-October 2024, the second occurrence of military exercises around the coast of Taiwan, which the Chinese call `Joint Sword’, have apparently just concluded. The…
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Azerbaijani Geopolitics and Pax-Eurasiana
Dr Ferit Murat Ozkaleli is Associate Professor of International Affairs at ADA University in Azerbaijan A soft spotlight illuminates the stage as music fills Baku’s Old Opera House. It is Uzeyir Hajibeyov’s Leyli and Mecnun, a musical adaptation of a 16th-century tragic love poem by folk artist Fuzuli. When the music meets with the singer’s…
