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The Hormuz Shutdown and the New Fragility of Global Trade’s Most Critical Route
Five ships a day where a hundred used to sail. Six months after the US-Israel strikes on Iran, the world's most critical energy chokepoint...
NATO Has No Article for This: What Greenland Reveals About Alliance Law’s Blind Spot
On 11 February, NATO launched Arctic Sentry — Swedish Gripen jets patrolling Greenlandic airspace, German Eurofighters overhead, nine flags behind a single new command....
Iran’s Black Box: The New Power Struggle Behind the Hormuz Talks
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The diplomatic traffic through Tehran this week, Qatar, Pakistan and Oman all visiting in seven days, has generated the appearance of momentum toward...
Sovereign Wealth Comes Home: Why Jakarta, Riyadh and Kuwait Are Pulling Their Money Back
TODAY'S NUMBERS: $6.8bn (Danantara's remittance to Jakarta's budget) · 20% (Saudi PIF's new overseas-investment ceiling, down from 30%) · 5.65% (Danantara's average bond yield)....
BRICS Pay vs. the Dollar: What the IMF’s Own Reserve Data Actually Shows
On 6 July 2026, standing in Jakarta, Narendra Modi and Indonesian officials operationalised a framework letting India and Indonesia settle bilateral trade directly in...
The Summit Is Not the Relationship: What Xi and Trump Can Actually Stabilize
When Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet again in Washington, the most important question will not be whether they shake hands, announce another trade...
There’s No Neutral Sensor Left in the Arctic — Here’s What That Means for NATO and China
On 6 June 2026, the NATO research vessel Alliance slipped out of La Spezia, Italy, bound for the High North. Its mission, Task Force...
The Houthi Blockade: Can Saudi Arabia Really Escape Iran’s Trap?
The question is no longer whether Saudi Arabia will respond to the Houthi blockade but what kind of response it can sustain. Riyadh has...
Brussels Can Now Sanction Any Refinery Buying Russian Oil. Why Did It Give the First One Six Months to Comply?
On July 23 the European Union used its newest sanctions tool for the first time. Buried inside its twenty first package against Russia was...
The Ulchi Freedom Shield Cuts: Why Did the US Rattle Its Most Important Asian Ally?
When a US president scales back military exercises with a key Pacific ally hours before they begin, and offers two contradictory reasons for doing...