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The Trump-Netanyahu Summit and Ankara: Is a Period of “Controlled Chaos” Beginning in the Middle East?
The Trump-Netanyahu summit in Washington in the final days of 2025 was not merely a courtesy visit for the region but the announcement of...
Why Does the Kuwait Investment Authority Still Matter? Success, Challenges, and Institutional Reform
Authors: Graciana Saragih and Karina Zahra*
Over decades, the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) has emerged as a strategic instrument for nations to manage national wealth...
From Cold War to Code War: Humanising AI Governance
Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic abstraction. It is here, quietly reorganizing economies, governance systems, and the meaning of human relevance. From predictive...
Sanctions, Public Discourse and Democratic Safeguards
Restrictive measures under the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) are instruments of external action. They are intended to address organized threats, including...
Why Ukraine’s Security Depends on Power, Not Promises
In mid-November, President Trump proposed a peace plan for the war in Ukraine consisting of twenty-eight points. Why twenty-eight? Why is it twenty-eight? Easy!...
Dragging out the War in Ukraine Makes it More Politically Unpredictable
Authors: Alex Filip and Dr. Julian Spencer-Churchill
The early failure by NATO to help Ukraine inflict severe costs on Russia has allowed Moscow to adjust...
Why Is the Idea of an “Iranian Deng Xiaoping” Misleading?
Following Israel’s attack on Iran and the activation of the snapback mechanism, Iran’s political and economic conditions have deteriorated day by day. According to...
Why Digital Democracy Breaks in the Global South: From “Shaming” Dashboards to Harmony Radars
In her seminal work Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics, Nanjala Nyabola diagnosed a fatal flaw of the digital age: we are attempting to impose digital...
Is Illegal Fishing the Climate Crime We Keep Ignoring?
Authors: Amna Hashmi and Javaria Shaikh*
For centuries, the oceans were treated as commons that can never be exhausted. From early imperial fishing fleets up...
What the U.S. strike in Nigeria reveals about Trump 2.0’s Africa Policy?
The U.S. airstrike in Nigeria, framed as moral intervention to protect Christians, reveals an Africa policy increasingly defined by selective engagement, reactive counterterrorism, and...