More: Geopolitics
Strategic Autonomy or Partnership? Europe’s Choice with South Korea
Europe’s ongoing rearmament has exposed a structural contradiction that exists at the very heart of its defense industrial strategy. Despite the surge of demand...
Why Armenia’s Best Bet Is Neutrality, Not Another Exclusive Alliance
Armenia’s best strategic option is not renewed dependence on Russia or a full alignment with the West, but a doctrine of credible neutrality backed...
Lebanon Is Burning While Iran and Israel Bargain
As the US-Iran ceasefire was declared April 8, Hezbollah made an unexpected move. It stopped shooting.
The hiatus was several hours. Then Israel unleashed what...
The United States, China, Taiwan and the American Decline
Cheng Li-wun, chairwoman of Taiwan's main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), visited China from April 7–12, 2026. Following a meeting with the Chinese President,...
Somalia’s Spoils System Has a New Variable
The warlords never left Somalia. They were given budgets, airports and constitutional titles.
The rushed parliamentary vote in Baidoa on 28 March made that reality...
Islamabad Talks: Untangling the Washington-Tehran impasse
After six weeks of tit-for-tat strikes by Iran on the one side, and the United States, Israel and Arab sheikhdoms on the other, the...
Iran war fallout puts Sudan’s Burhan in a deeper bind
Sudan’s self-appointed leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is finding that his co-dependent relationship with the country’s Islamist-Muslim Brotherhood elite is beginning to run interference on...
Five Brutal Truths the Iran War Exposed About Everyone
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched nearly 900 strikes on Iran in 12 hours. The Supreme Leader was dead by...
The Two Triads: An Emerging Post-American Middle East
Sometime in the past twelve months, the Middle East's security architecture quietly stopped revolving around the United States. The shift has no single point...
What the US-Israel War on Iran Means for the Long Term
The recent US-Israel attacks on Iran has triggered an avalanche of analysis by a range of different specialists on the many media platforms that...