More: Geopolitics
The New Language of Power: How Infrastructure and Coercion Shape Global Rivalry
On March 22, Donald Trump posted a threat on Truth Social. If Iran did not fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours,...
Panregions Reborn: Macro-Geopolitics and the Path to Hegemony
The international system is changing in ways that are often described as the end of globalisation. That diagnosis captures part of the story, but...
Claiming Peace, Waging War: U.S. Policy in a New Era of Global Conflict
The world witnessed major conflicts in 2025, with one of the most alarming escalations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors, India and Pakistan. If it...
Wars Waged by Great Powers are Felt Most by Poor Countries
One of the most disturbing developments in world politics is that the number of interstate wars are increasing, marking an end to an eighty-year...
The War in Iran is not the next World War: How multipolarity is changing the logic of escalation
The Iranian conflict is falling, predictably, into the escalation trap—from what began as a vertically limited, regime-targeting air campaign to a horizontally expanding regional...
The Strait of Hormuz as the New Suez Moment
20% of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, a small chokepoint whose use is now being massively disrupted by war, drone...
Modi’s Foreign Policy: Serving U.S. Interests at the Cost of India’s Autonomy
India's diplomatic standing has weakened since President Donald Trump began his second term. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy has been clearly ineffective, especially...
Oil Reserves do not Solve an Oil Shock
The renewed oil shock has exposed an old truth that governments keep trying to forget. Energy markets may look global, digital, and sophisticated, but...
The Hormuz Crisis: Why Controlling a Chokepoint is Harder Than Winning a War
The escalating conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States has directly impacted the security dynamics of the Strait of Hormuz. The geography of...
Shattered Illusions: What the Iran War Revealed About America’s Decline
For nearly four weeks, the world has had a taste of what a war between competing powers looks like, and what the stakes are—and...