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The New Architecture of American Primacy
The 2026 National Defense Strategy identifies a problem that can easily be mistaken for another argument about burden-sharing. It calls it the “simultaneity problem,"...
Nobody Sent the Warning: How Routine Paperwork Became a Global War Scare
A Map With No Author
In the last week of October, a map began circulating that seemed to show the world bracing for something. Newsweek's...
Beyond MINURSO: Morocco’s Autonomy Initiative and the New Parameters of a Political Settlement
The Security Council's failure to renew MINURSO's mandate on Oct. 30, 2026, brought an end to a central part of the U.N.'s involvement in...
The Great European Energy Paradox: How Every Solution Created a New Challenge
For more than two decades, European energy policy has pursued three ambitions simultaneously: affordable energy, strategic autonomy and decarbonization. Individually, each objective appears rational...
The Bill Comes Due: America’s Bases Are Burning While Washington Looks Away
The satellite imagery is unambiguous, and it is devastating. More than 115 Iranian missile and drone strikes have damaged or destroyed structures at 26...
The Guarantor Is the Ceasefire: What a Frozen Front Line Actually Buys Ukraine
“Right Now, We Have to Freeze”
On 22 October, Volodymyr Zelensky said the sentence Kyiv had avoided for four years. “Yes, right now, we have...
Western Sahara Needs a Settlement, Not a Great-Power Standoff
There is something deeply troubling about a peace process in which the very powers meant to keep negotiations moving become obstacles to progress. Morocco-Western...
Custodian, Not Broker: Europe’s Quiet Rewrite of Its Middle East Policy
When the second EU–Gulf Cooperation Council summit was called off nine days before it was due to open in Riyadh on 24 October, Brussels...
The Northern Sea Route Is a Hedge, Not a Highway
On 9 September, the container ship Dubai Tower berthed at Teesport in northeast England with a hold full of Chinese batteries and energy-storage equipment,...
Jadar’s Reckoning: Brussels Wants Serbia’s Lithium. Serbia’s New Majority Was Built to Stop It
A Farmer's Bill Meets a Brussels List
Zlatko Kokanović has spent nearly seven years campaigning against a lithium mine in his village of Gornje Nedeljice,...