Manuel Castello Branco

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Manuel Castello Branco is a law student at the University of Lisbon. He is a weekly columnist at Observador, a leading Portuguese online newspaper, and a member of the board of Centro de Estudos Políticos FDUL, where he leads the Department of Research and Political Literacy. His writing focuses on geopolitics, global power relations and foreign affairs.

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Turkey, Syria and Ukraine: Strategic Hedging in the Near East

The war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran in February has left a great many consequences in its wake. It greatly...

The Two Triads: An Emerging Post-American Middle East

Sometime in the past twelve months, the Middle East's security architecture quietly stopped revolving around the United States. The shift has no single point...

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