The World This Week

The World This Week (TWTW) is a flagship publication of NIAS Global Politics and Area Studies initiative. Published every Sunday, it looks at major developments during the week. The main comments are in 700-800 words looking at three questions: What happened? What is the background? What does it mean?
Latest Publication

The Quad Summit 2024, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's US Visit, LDP Elections in Japan, and Modi’s US Visit
October 2024 | CWA # 1479

GP Team

Conflict Weekly

GP Comments

GP Comments are in 800-1000 words, on contemporary developments relating to global politics and area studies. They are in the form of Explainer, Takeaways and Q&A.

The GP Comments is also a capacity building exercise; most of the authors are young scholars from NIAS and its partner institutions.

Latest Publication

The Quad Summit 2024, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's US Visit, LDP Elections in Japan, and Modi’s US Visit
October 2024 | CWA # 1479

GP Team

Conflict Weekly

Israel-Hezbollah-Iran Missile Attacks, and New Tensions in Sudan

October 2024 | CWA # 1478

IPRI Team

Conflict Weekly

From Gaza to Lebanon: A New Phase of War in the Middle East

September 2024 | CWA # 1477

IPRI Team

The World This Week

Beijing Xiangshan Forum and Meloni-Starmer Meeting

September 2024 | CWA # 1475

GP Team

GP Short Notes

This Week in History

Europe Monitor

Europe Monitor #28 Vol. 04, No. 01

The EM January Edition consists of a Russia: De-ratifing the CTBT, Ukraine: Missile attacks, US divide over military aid and the Hungarian block.

Europe Monitor #27 Vol. 03, No. 12

The EM December Edition consists of a record of key developments from the Ukraine War between Day 655 to Day 610 and short notes on contemporary Europe also form part of the edition.

Europe Monitor #26 Vol. 03, No. 11

The EM November Edition consists of commentary on the Poland Elections 2023 and a record of key developments from the Ukraine War between Day 610 to Day 584 and short notes on contemporary Europe also form part of the edition.