Middle East & Africa
From Map Dots to Linchpins: How Small Islands Rewire Indian Ocean Power
Authors: Amna Hashmi and Amina Munir
Geopolitics considered landmass to be destiny for centuries. Empires grew by dominating space; great powers gauged power in boundaries,...
Quiet talks, loud guns: The shifting momentum toward US-Iran conflict
Iran and the United States are moving closer to military conflict as diplomatic efforts regarding Tehran’s nuclear program appear to be failing. Officials from...
Iran Between Resistance and Reintegration: A Geopolitical Turning Point
Almost fifty years after the revolution in 1979 that changed the political landscape of Iran, Iran is at the crossroads of its history, which...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei: How the 86-Year-Old Confronts His Greatest Crisis Yet
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ruled Iran since 1989, exercising ultimate authority over all branches of government, the military, and the judiciary. With decades of...
China rejects US militarization of Middle East, responds to Iranian threat on Jordan base
In mid-February 2026, Iranian media outlets and channels published a video documenting details of the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Zarqa, northern Jordan, from...
Can Iran Prove Its Resilience in the Face of US Pressure?
Iran’s regional power position prominently declined after structural devastations to its proxies, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and the subsequent fall of...
Carrier, Chokepoint and Coercion: The Growing Risk of Iran-U.S. Conflict
After the successful US regime-change military action in Venezuela, it appears Washington is aiming for a similar endeavor again—this time in the Middle East...
African Union Consolidates Relations with United Nations
In its declaration after the two-day extensive deliberations, African leaders, under the auspices of the African Union, renewed their collective pledge to strengthen strategic...
Are U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks Diplomacy or a Countdown to War?
The second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran concluded in Geneva on Tuesday with what Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi...
The Art of Not Choosing: Africa’s Multipolar Strategy
Authors: Ravi Raj and Akshan Ranjan*
The current geopolitical positioning of the African continent is not in compliance with the traditional dichotomies of what we...