Pax Americana 2.0: Toward a New Transatlantic Strategic Contract
The 62nd Munich Security Conference took place in a turbulent environment. Europe remains the theater of a protracted war between Russia and Ukraine. On...
Demand Everything, Secure Enough: The Logic of Trump’s Foreign Policy
The second term of President Donald Trump has marked a transition from improvisational disruption to a more systematic and self-consciously structured foreign policy doctrine....
New Mexico Orders Full Probe into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch
Lawmakers in New Mexico have approved a comprehensive investigation into alleged sexual trafficking and abuse at Zorro Ranch, the sprawling estate owned by the...
Contested Sovereignty in Interdependent Systems: Why Trump Retreated from Greenland
After weeks of military threats and economic coercion against NATO allies to secure access to Greenland’s vast rare earth deposits and expanded basing rights,...
The Second Trump Administration’s Cuba Doctrine: Pressure Power Politics and Oil
For three hours on January 28th, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio testified in front of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, responding to...
Aiding Neo-Colonialism: Reviving a Colonized State
Haiti, often labelled and dismissed as the “Failed State” of the Caribbean, remains one of our international bureaucracy’s most visible failures. Nearly two decades...
U.S. House Blocks GOP Effort to Shield Trump Tariffs from Challenge
The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected a Republican-backed attempt to block legislative challenges to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, in a 217–214 vote that...
Opposition Figure Seized Again Hours After Release in Caracas
Juan Pablo Guanipa is a senior Venezuelan opposition politician and a close ally of opposition leader María Corina Machado. He was arrested in May...
Why Venezuela’s Socialist Party is losing control
In Venezuela's main oil city, Maracaibo, members of the ruling socialist party have been checking local support after President Nicolas Maduro was captured by...
United States soft power is collapsing and the world needs to adjust
The American leadership, since the Post-World War II era, was based on a unique blend of military superiority, financial dominance, and the power to...