Across
1. South American President linked to Operation Absolute Resolve
4. The leader responsible for establishing the €100 billion special defence fund in Germany
8. Multinational research centre near Geneva
10. Country under a long-standing US embargo
11. Subordinate state under a dominant power
12. Home of the ICJ, in EU data shorthand
13. Five-sided symbol of US military power
16. Likud leader dominating Israeli politics
20. Hellenic, in modern usage
21. Country receiving a summit or talks
23. Government-issued currency not backed by commodities
25. Azerbaijan-to-Europe gas pipeline, briefly
26. Multi-purpose ore, bulk and oil carrier, briefly
27. Critical minerals central to global tech rivalry, briefly
28. Trump-era U.S. name for the Gulf of Mexico, briefly
30. Anarchy literally means the absence of this
31. Vienna-based atomic watchdog
34. Climate-related term increasingly prominent in national security vocabulary
35. Opposition figure frequently cited during recent Iran protests
36. Emerging economies bloc coined by Goldman Sachs
37. US leader associated with a return to multilateral diplomacy
Down
1. EU leader pushing ‘strategic autonomy’
2. A financial instrument China is accused of using to create “traps” for developing nations
3. A long-term residency status granted by India
5. Edge of land critical to naval power
6. A regional multilateral body based in Washington
7. Kyiv leader central to Western war diplomacy
9. First African American diplomat to win the Nobel Peace Prize
14. Monetary bloc governed by the ECB
15. Arctic territory whose status fuelled Trump–Europe tensions
17. High-speed deployment of ground forces to seize the initiative
18. Restriction targeting a state’s economy or elites
19. Arm of the military controlling the skies
22. Former human rights lawyer now at No. 10
24. “The West” of the Arab world
29. Ex-KGB officer at the centre of the Ukraine war
32. Manila-based regional development bank, briefly
33. Frontier technology feared to reshape global power balances
