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South Korea’s Tactical Nuclear Question: Lessons from West Germany
During the Cold War, West Germany faced a dilemma that now feels increasingly familiar to South Korea. It was a frontline U.S. treaty ally,...
Zelensky Pressures Belarus Over Support for Russian Drone Operations
Diplomatic sparring between Ukraine and Belarus escalated sharply on 19 June, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded that Belarus dismantle communications infrastructure allegedly used...
A Civilian Façade: Riyadh’s Push to Rebrand Burhan Collapses on His Record
Saudi Arabia is quietly trying to build a civilian political base around Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, according to Africa Intelligence,...
The Cost of the Cloud: AI’s Environmental Footprint in Latin America
Artificial intelligence is often presented as the next great technological revolution. Governments promote it as a pathway to innovation, businesses celebrate its economic potential,...
Trump’s Foreign Policy Doctrine Is Taking Shape: The Strategic Logic of America First 2.0
Half way through 2026, the world has already experienced a whirlwind of geopolitical change under the seismic foreign policy shifts enacted by US President...
The New Geopolitics of AI: Water, Energy, and the Battle for Computational Power
The global race for artificial intelligence is no longer just a contest of algorithms, but a struggle for physical infrastructure, massive 300 MW–scale data...
After Hwasong-20, Washington Needs a New North Korea Strategy
In October 2025, North Korea unveiled what its state media called its "most powerful nuclear strategic weapon," the Hwasong-20, a solid-fueled, road-mobile intercontinental ballistic...
How the Iran Deal Made the G7 Summit in Evian the Most Important in a Decade
Trump landed in France on Sunday night, fresh from watching an MMA fight on the White House South Lawn to celebrate his 80th birthday,...
China’s Private Security Companies in the Middle East: Commercial Actors, Strategic Tools
Chinese PSCs are state-adjacent actors embedded in China’s overseas economic expansion, particularly under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), generating new arenas of US–China...
Xi’s North Korea Visit Fuels Kim’s Push for Trump Talks After Iran War
Chinese President Xi Jinping's historic two-day visit to North Korea (June 8-9, 2026) is linked to the ongoing conflict in their ally Iran and...