Global affairs analysis,
story and reflection worth
your attention

Foreign, security and defence issues dictate everything: peace, democratic norms, who has rights and who doesn't.

We are home to long-form, solutions-centred narrative features, analyses and interviews for people who want to understand these issues properly, not just follow the news.

We work with practitioners with firsthand knowledge, differentiated thinking and a point of view worth listening to.

Editorial output

We produce and publish multimedia content, namely essays and interviews at the intersection of foreign, security and defence issues.

We collaborate with practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds, who have something specific to say and the experience to say it. Think of it as mini masterclasses on global affairs.

We work across recurring lenses within the foreign, security and defence policy umbrella:

Democracy ✽ Human Rights ✽ Gender ✽ Multilateralism ✽ Politics ✽ Technology…

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    We work with institutions and organisations to turn policy work into editorial content built for general public reach. That means features, interviews and long-form pieces that amplify expert and community voices, bring evidence-based research to broader audiences, and show how their work connects to the decisions that shape people's lives.

    We take a thematic, solutions-focused approach. If your output has a story worth telling beyond your own ecosystem, we know how to tell it.

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Global affairs has always had better storytellers than stories. We fix that, one conversation at a time.

Each episode goes deep on a single question in foreign, security and defence issues. We leave the news analysis to the newsrooms. What we're after is what the people working on these issues actually think, feel and carry with them.

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