Once a port at the entrance to the Strait of Malacca, Singapore is now a hub for managing risk in international trade. There are broader lessons for countries dependent on energy flows
From the lives of explorers to the intimacies of the human condition, Morgado looks for the imperfect and the relatable, whether in historical figures or in ourselves.
As the world's attention turns to the safety of maritime trade routes, it is important to recall that civilisations have transported goods and people across the seas for thousands of years.
Does the declaration recently signed in Riyadh indicate a gradual transition towards a regional security architecture that will assume responsibilities long borne by external naval powers?
Come November, the Egyptian-American epidemiologist could become the first Muslim senator in US history, despite $70mn spent to defeat him in the Democratic primary