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The Double-Edged Sword of U.S. Economic Power
The United States has increasingly utilized its economic might as a tool of statecraft in the twenty-first century. Washington has employed tariffs, sanctions, and...
The Illusion of Freedom: Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift
Latin America’s political landscape has seen sweeping shifts in recent years. On one hand, a so-called “second Pink Tide” has returned left-of-centre governments to...
A Narrow Passage, A Grand Plan: How the U.S. Aims to Strangle China’s Naval Ambitions
Marilyn Hubalde recalls the fear of local residents in Batanes, Philippines, when they first heard military helicopters during joint exercises with U. S. troops...
Trump-Xi’s ‘12 Out of 10’ Meeting Leaves Europe Watching From the Sidelines
President Donald Trump called it a “12 out of 10.” Xi Jinping called it “a new start.” Markets exhaled. But in Brussels, the mood...
Trump’s Venezuela Experiment: Regime Change, Not Through Force, But Finance
When the Trump administration turned its gaze toward Caracas, it wasn’t simply reacting to Nicolás Maduro’s fraudulent 2018 re-election. It was staging a modern...
Behind the Handshake: The Real Deal on US-China Trade
U. S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to reduce tensions in their trade war by modifying some tariffs and export...
The Fall of the Polisario: Geopolitics and Shifting Allegiances
After over fifty years of dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, recent developments seem to be leading to a new season titled “The End of...
Realpolitik Reborn: Power and Pragmatism in the New Global Order
The global order is undergoing a quiet yet profound transformation. The liberal international system built post-World War II and rooted in shared rules, open...
Beyond Megawatts: Water as the Hidden Backbone of AI and Energy Infrastructure
The exponential rise in electricity demand, driven by AI infrastructure and high-performance computing, has introduced new stressors. Water is a critical yet often overlooked...
German reunification? Nein
As the establishment political center in Germany clings to power, sociopolitical disunity and profound disaffection have created a new East-West divide.
The elites’ use of...