China’s Influence Operations in the South China Sea and the Global South as a Means of Power Projection
The Strategic Importance of the South China Sea:
A region of immense historic and contemporary significance, the South China Sea has emerged as a global...
Serbia 1835 and 2025: Will history repeat—or rewrite itself?
Kragujevac, Serbia—15 February 1835 marked a fleeting moment of audacity. In this unassuming city, then Serbia’s capital, enlightenment-inspired reformers presented the Sretenje Constitution—a radical...
Latin America’s post-new left is constantly reinventing
When ideas fail, Goethe says, words come in very handy. Words make worlds. However, as Thucydides cautions, in wars, words lose their meaning. We...
Exploring New Frameworks for Taiwan-China Relations: Associated Statehood and Confederation
The Taiwan-China relationship remains one of the world’s most intricate geopolitical challenges. Taiwan operates as a de facto independent state with a democratic government...
South Asia Awaits Donald Trump’s First Moves
Donald Trump's largely unexpected and striking victory in the US presidential election could significantly change the dynamics of global geopolitical processes. A significant change...
ASEAN is fragmented and has still has no common approach to Myanmar
The Tatmadaw under General Min Aung Hlaing seized power in a coup on February 1, 2021. Nearly, 3 years have passed and ASEAN, still...
A Taste of Collaboration: Brazil and China’s Food Deal Feasts on Opportunity
During Xi Jinping’s visit to Brazil for the G20 Summit in November last year, China and Brazil signed a series of new deals outlining...
Is DeepSeek a Democratization of Technology or a Chinese Threat?
On the eve of the AI summit in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron announced an investment of €109 billion as the foundation for France...
DRC Crisis: Start of a Wider Regional Conflict
27th January, 2025. For the second time in the last ten years, rebels from the March 23 Movement, or M23, captured Goma– the provincial...
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? – Book Review
Graham Allison is an eminent scholar from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, founding Dean of the Kennedy School and former Head of...