Early Edition November 25, 2025

Your curated weekday guide to the biggest national security and foreign policy developments over the past 24 hours. Compiled by the Just Security team and read by an automated voice, The Early Edition is an essential resource for anyone shaping a just and secure world.Published November 25th, 2025, on Just Security. ICYMI: Yesterday on Just SecurityAs Trump Presses for a Post-Maduro Venezuela: Questions, Lessons, and Warnings for the Aftermath By Peter J. Quaranto and Tyler Jess ThompsonCrisis as Catalyst: Seabed Minerals and the (Un)Making of International Law By Coalter LathropWith New Transit Routes and Investment, the U.S. Aims to Counter China and Russia in the South Caucasus and Central Asia By Nino Lezhava