> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://middlepowers.fyi/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Changelog
> Notable changes to the Middle Powers Monitor
This page records reader-facing changes to the Monitor — coverage, format, and how the analysis is produced. Fixes and infrastructure work are omitted.
## Hungary joins coverage; Europe reorganised into three regions
Hungary is now the 30th country covered by the Monitor. Its addition follows Viktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary's parliamentary election: Hungarian behaviour can no longer be treated as external obstruction to Europe's consensus, and the country re-enters the frame as a middle power whose direction is an open question.
Coverage of Europe is also reorganised. The former "Frontline and Eastern Europe" and "Western Europe" regions are replaced by three: **Central-Eastern Europe** (Ukraine, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary), **Nordic-Baltic** (Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Sweden), and **Western Europe** (France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain). The old two-way split grouped countries by their posture toward Russia; the new three-way split groups them by the structural pressures they actually face. The change takes effect from the next brief onward; previous briefs retain their original region structure.
## Regional teasers move to At a Glance
Each regional heading on the **At a Glance** page now leads with a one-sentence italic summary of the week in that region, sitting between the heading and the country cards. The sentence is the same one that previously appeared as a card body on the Global Overview; it now sits next to the country-level stories it frames.
The region Card grid has been removed from the Global Overview, which now ends with the executive essay. The change has been applied to every brief where At a Glance exists (February 1 onward).
## Changelog tab
This page has been added to the top navigation and backfilled with entries for reader-facing changes going back to the Monitor's first public brief in February. Notable additions to coverage, format, and methodology will be recorded here from now on; fixes and infrastructure work are omitted.
## A new editorial chain for regional and executive essays
Regional leads and the global overview now pass through a full writer → editor → copyeditor → style editor chain, with each country's narrative available as concrete source material for the regional writer. Editorial headlines are threaded from the editor through to the published page, so each regional and executive essay now leads with a headline that reflects its argument rather than a generic label.
The **Watchlist** section has been retired. Items previously listed as watchlist bullets are now woven into each country's narrative where they carry explanatory weight, and dropped where they do not. The same change applies retroactively to backfilled briefs.
## At a Glance is now the front page
Each brief now opens with an **At a Glance** page: one card per country, each surfacing the single most consequential development of the week, with a flag icon and a link through to the full regional page. The page is generated deterministically from the country analyses rather than by a separate synthesis step, so the top-line item for each country is always the one the pipeline judged most consequential.
The former **Overview** has been renamed **Global Overview** and now sits second in the tab. At a Glance pages have been backfilled for every brief from February 1 onward.
## Analytics and a machine-readable index
The site now serves [Plausible](https://plausible.io) analytics — privacy-preserving, no cookies, no cross-site tracking. An `llms.txt` file has also been added at the site root so language models indexing the Monitor get a canonical description of coverage, framework, and brief structure rather than inferring it from HTML.
## Pakistan joins the coverage list
Pakistan is now the 29th country covered by the Monitor, added to the **Near East and South Asia** region alongside Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and India. The region was renamed from "Middle East, Turkey and South Asia" to reflect the expanded scope.
Pakistan was added because its hedging behaviour — between Washington, Beijing and the Gulf, against the backdrop of civil-military contestation — sits squarely inside the question the Monitor exists to track.
## Expanded About page
The [About](/about) page has been rewritten to spell out the Monitor's analytical framework, methodology, and coverage decisions — which countries are in, which are excluded, and why. The five signal categories (diplomatic alignment, security and defence, economic statecraft, institutional engagement, domestic constraints) are now described in full on the same page, rather than implicit in the briefs.
## Narrative prose replaces watchlist bullets
Watchlist items previously rendered as terse bullets are now woven into each country's narrative where they carry explanatory weight. The change is part of a broader shift from list-style output to continuous prose that explains why each development matters.
## Archives reorganised, Dossiers tab removed
The top-level tabs are now **Latest Brief**, **Archives**, and **About**. Past briefs live in Archives under collapsible week-by-week groups, each expandable to the seven regional pages for that week. The **Dossiers** tab has been removed; structural context for each country is now carried inside the weekly analysis rather than in separate reference pages.
## New home on Mintlify
The Monitor moved from a Jekyll site (Just the Docs theme) to [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com). The new site adds a proper tabbed navigation, collapsible accordions for country notes and secondary stories, dark mode, and Atkinson Hyperlegible Next as the default typeface. Regional briefs are now split into separate pages with card-based navigation from the overview, rather than one long scroll per week.
All prior briefs were ported; nothing has been deleted.
## Coverage expands to 28 countries
The roster grows from 15 to 28, adding Asia-Pacific (Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia), the Near East and South Asia (Turkey, Saudi Arabia, UAE, India), Czech Republic, Romania, Norway, Sweden, Spain, and Chile. Uruguay and Moldova are dropped as coverage shifts from individual leader tracking toward structural analysis of middle-power behaviour across five regions.
## First public brief
The Middle Powers Monitor publishes its first weekly brief, covering 15 countries: Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Poland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and Uruguay. The publication is free, has no paywall, and will publish every Monday.