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The Interwar Trap Returns: What 1919-1939 Europe Teaches the U.S., Japan, and South Korea Today
In contemporary debates on the Indo-Pacific, decision-makers sometimes invoke the lessons of the 1930s—mostly as a warning against “appeasement.” However, such a frame is...
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...
Pursuing Reparations for Africa: From African Union to United Nations
Noticeably, African political elites and intellectuals, academics, and researchers have navigated reparations with little progress and tangible results until today. Political and diplomatic engagements...
Donbasization as Doctrine: The Fragmentation of the European Security Order
Authors: Zlatko Hadžidedić and Senadin Lavić*
Following the early 1990s argument of the so-called compensation theory—that Kosovo can go, but that the territorial loss 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...
Strategic Lessons from Kennedy-Macmillan for Japan-South Korea Ties
Periods of structural instability tend to expose the difference between formal alliances and functional strategic partnerships. In the early 1960s, at the height of...
The Deadly Mutation of the 2026 Monroe Doctrine
The recent US military operation codenamed “Absolute Resolve” sparked a massive uproar in the international community. It was the swift operation that captured Venezuelan...
Do the Russians Want War?
In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, a song appeared in the Soviet Union whose title posed a question that still resonates...
From Probability to Possibility: The Algorithm of Aspire in a Fragmenting Global Order
We enter this moment in history with a world order that is no longer merely shifting—it is fragmenting. Institutions that once claimed universality are...
From Sinai to Seoul: What the Six-Day War Teaches About a Future North Korean Blitzkrieg
In June 1967, when the sun was rising over the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Israeli fighter squadrons skimming through the coastlines at low altitude struck...