The Second Nuclear Age: Why the World is Betting on the Atom Again
Data centres, climate targets and energy security - three forces pushing nuclear power back to the forefront of the global agenda. But behind the...
Indonesia Talks Energy Transition, But Why Does Coal Still Rule?
Few countries talk about the energy transition as fluently as Indonesia does. Fewer still have done less about it. At the G20 summit in...
The “cake” being pushed in front of Xi is getting bigger and bigger
The smartest thing Trump can do for the United States is to adopt a "cake-sharing" strategy to cope with the arrival of a multipolar...
U.S. Energy Dominance and the Remaking of the Global Order
The sequence of events stretching from Venezuela to the war in Iran, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and the simultaneous degradation of...
Layered Anelasticities: When New Shocks Arrive Before Old Ones Heal
The global energy system increasingly behaves like a material under continuous deformation; anelasticity is the incomplete recovery after stress, while hysteresis is the persistence...
Reflections: Africa’s Energy Security
Perhaps Russia's state nuclear corporation, Rosatom, is at the forefront, shaping Africa's energy security. And African countries are also accelerating coordinated efforts to build...
The impact of the US-Israel-Iran crisis on Asia
At the peak of the crisis, oil surged to $110–116/bbl. But it remains volatile at $90–100 after ceasefire pause. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) took...
The Real Energy Crisis Begins After the Ceasefire
The April 8 ceasefire between Iran, the United States, and Israel has calmed nerves, but it has not repaired the energy system that was...
War, Energy, and the Remaking of Global Order in Beijing’s Image
The looming May 14–15 summit in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping presents a puzzle that conventional geopolitical maps struggle to navigate. As...
The Continent That Believed Geopolitics Had Ended
For more than three decades, Europe behaved as if history had granted it a permanent exemption from geopolitics. The end of the Cold War,...