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The Death of Air Superiority: How Drone Warfare Has Become Democratised
Ever since the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, when aircraft were first deployed in combat, the assumption that whoever controlled the skies controlled the conflict...
How the Cyprus Question Continues to Shape EU-Turkey Security Cooperation
As Europe’s security environment evolves, EU-Turkey relations have acquired renewed strategic importance. Yet despite Europe’s focus on its defence capabilities and Turkey’s role as...
Tech Blitzkrieg: Drone Warfare and the Transformation of Maneuver
The battlefield has been irrevocably transformed. Imagine the thunderous advance of World War II’s Blitzkrieg, thousands of tanks massing at a single point, armored...
Why the Muslim Brotherhood Failed to Gain Influence in China
The Muslim Brotherhood's failure to penetrate Chinese society, particularly after the Arab Spring uprisings, stems from the Chinese Communist Party's tight security grip, China's...
Control and Conquest: Israel, Lebanon, and the Automated Erosion of Sovereignty
Israel’s battles in the Middle East show no signs of stopping as we move into the second half of the year. Bombs continue to...
Who Is Allowed to Coordinate in the Middle East Crisis
In late May, with the talks to end the Iran war stalled, the US president threatened to blow up Oman if it did not,...
Why Can Neither Washington Nor Tehran Talk Without Pakistan in the Room?
The 2026 war between Israel, the United States and Iran produced two outcomes that are easy to conflate but analytically distinct. The first was...
Is China’s Digital Yuan Becoming a Settlement Tool? The Geopolitics of Monetary Hedging
China’s digital yuan has spent years being judged by the wrong test. Most attention has focused on whether ordinary users would abandon Alipay or...
Renewed Gulf Hostilities, Elevated Regional and Global Uncertainty
The United States and Iran traded new attacks overnight into Thursday, intensifying an exchange that has threatened the collapse of their agreement to end...
Morocco’s partnership with Beijing shifts economic power from Europe to China
Several years ago, the European Union regarded the Kingdom of Morocco mostly as an unchanging economic partner, a proximate market, and a suitable industrial...