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The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power: How States Use Religion in Foreign Policy
Peter Mandaville is exceptionally well positioned to edit The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power. A professor of international affairs at the Schar School of...
Rebalancing Energy Policy: Diversification, Net Zero, and the Erosion of Energy Security
Thirty years ago, I was negotiating the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) pipeline - later expanded into the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline - one of the most ambitious...
EU Seeks Greater Agency but Remains Embedded Within U.S.-Dominated Security Architecture
In this interview,Professor Sergiu Mișcoiu at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), where he also serves as a director of...
How Shock, Timing, and Industrial Strategy Are Rewriting the LNG Era
The global LNG market is no longer shaped by familiar cycles of tightness and surplus. It is now defined by inelasticity, a structural rigidity...
Iran Isn’t Just a Threat—It’s Splitting NATO
The war with Iran is exposing a structural fracture inside NATO—one that may prove more consequential than any external threat facing the Alliance today....
Lionel Jospin – a French Socialist in London
Lionel Jospin, one of the big figures in French Socialist Party politics, has died aged 88. He was a leading figure in the long...
Energy Shock Forces Europe to Rethink Climate Ambitions
The European Union is once again confronting a severe energy shock as the Iran war disrupts global supply routes and drives prices sharply higher....
European Stocks Climb and Oil Falls as Markets React to Trump’s Iran Negotiation Signals
European stock indexes rose on Wednesday while oil prices eased, following reports that the United States is seeking a month-long ceasefire with Iran. U.S....
France’s Local Vote Exposes a Fragmented Battlefield
The 2026 municipal elections in France highlight a political system that is no longer dominated by a simple left right divide. Instead, three blocs...
How to Move to Cyprus from the UK
Moving to Cyprus from the UK can be a very good life change, but it goes much more smoothly when you treat it as...