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Tehran Warns of ‘Devastating’ Strikes on Gulf Power Plants in Response to Trump
Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned that they would target Israel's power plants and those supplying U. S. bases in the Gulf if President Trump follows...
How a U.S.-Israeli Conflict With Iran Reshapes Security and Economies Worldwide
In this interview, Professor Sergiu Mișcoiu at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (Romania), where he also serves as a director...
America’s Gulf Bases Are No Longer Shields: The Limits of U.S. Military Power
Authors: Muhammad Rauhan Rasheed and Asif Al Hasan*
In an interesting development, the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, refused to be a part of the...
After Hormuz: Winners, Losers, and the Return of Energy Geopolitics
The de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not merely another oil shock. It is a structural rupture in the global energy...
Drifting Toward Chaos: Donald Trump, Iran and Nuclear War
“The rational is not thinkable without its other, the non-rational, and it never appears in reality without it.”-Karl Jaspers, Reason and Existence (1935)
It’s no...
Behind China’s Abstention: The Calculus of Not Condemning Iran’s Gulf Strikes
China abstained from voting on UN Security Council Resolution 2817 in March 2026, which condemned Iranian attacks on Gulf states and Jordan by a...
The Invoiced Alliance: Transactional Power and the NATO Guarantee
There is a pattern in how Donald Trump approaches alliances, and it has been consistent since the opening weeks of 2016. It is not...
The Lonely Superpower: Trump’s Iran War and the End of American Consent
The United States currently finds itself in a state of strategic paralysis, caught between an administrative push for military confrontation and a wall of...
Behind China’s Rejection of a US-Led Naval Coalition in the Strait of Hormuz
China has adopted a strategy of securing passage through bilateral channels, meaning that Beijing prefers to rely on domestic diplomacy and direct communication with...
Chokepoint Wars: How the Strait of Hormuz Crisis Is Reshaping Global Energy Security
The modern international system is no longer characterized by the conflicts based on the territorial boundaries but the tensions concerning the strategic routes that...