More: Geopolitics
The CIA’s China Playbook and the Shadow War
In a recent move, China’s top general and a longtime confidant of President Xi Jinping, Zhang Youxia, and Joint Staff chief Liu Zhenli were...
The Age of Water Bankruptcy – Victims, Perpetrators and Processes
Introduction
A recent report from the UN Institute for Water, Environment and Health announced we have entered an age of ‘water bankruptcy’. The language of...
Financial Brief: A Weekly Roundup on the Geopolitics of Money | Feb 24
EXECUTIVE TAKEAWAYS
This week, legal frameworks and geopolitical threats overrode economics. Trump replaced struck-down IEEPA tariffs with Section 122 duties citing a balance-of-payments crisis economists...
Taiwan at a Crossroads: Why Strategic Ambiguity Needs Recalibration
Taiwan is also becoming a more dangerous flash point in the international affairs. War in the Taiwan strait will lead to a full-blown confrontation...
No-Win Situation for Trump: Why the US Cannot Achieve Military Victory
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, six frigates, three light warships, and approximately thirty fighter jets and support aircraft have entered the Middle East...
Between Peace Diplomacy and Narrative Warfare: Aliyev’s Current Messaging
In his recent interview with France 24, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev had an opportunity to reinforce two distinct diplomatic tracks: the peace process with...
Iran Between Resistance and Reintegration: A Geopolitical Turning Point
Almost fifty years after the revolution in 1979 that changed the political landscape of Iran, Iran is at the crossroads of its history, which...
Is India Turning into a Silent Giant?
A global power should not only claim to be a global power—it must also behave like one.
India stands at several uneasy crossroads today, partly...
Pax Americana 2.0: Toward a New Transatlantic Strategic Contract
The 62nd Munich Security Conference took place in a turbulent environment. Europe remains the theater of a protracted war between Russia and Ukraine. On...
What Thucydides Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry
Thucydides was acutely aware of the enduring relevance of his work. In the opening pages of his History of the Peloponnesian War, he writes that...