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Why Venezuela’s Air Defenses Never Fired: When C4ISR Disarms C2
How can an air defense system cease to function without being destroyed? And what does this apparent inaction reveal about the profound transformation of...
When the Powerful Break the Rules, No One is Safe
The images from Caracas in January were jarring, not because Latin America is unfamiliar with upheaval, but because of who crossed the line and...
Equality, History, and the Question of Palestinian Statehood
A thread runs from Christopher Hitchens to Edward Said and straight into Gaza’s present: the fight over who gets to live as a political...
Trump’s legacy: Eroding legal norms
"I do not need international law," said Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, a superpower. This is not just mere rhetoric...
Why Greenland matters now; Trump, Arctic security, and U.S Strategic Priorities
The recent remarks made by President Donald Trump that the United States should own Greenland to stop the further influence of Russia and China...
Heavy Oil and Venezuela’s Shifting Role
Venezuela’s place in global energy history is far more substantial than today’s production figures suggest. During the Second World War, the country was nothing...
President Trump is Playing with Fire in Nigeria
In July 2025, Genocide Watch reported that Nigeria was continuing to grapple with a “genocidal crisis” in which Islamists and jihadists of the Fulani...
Doha Was a Deal, Not a Model
The suggestion of Zalmay Khalilzad to make Pakistan pursue an agreement of the Doha format with Kabul is pegged on a retrocedent vision of...
Abebe Selassie to Retire as Director of the African Department at the IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced the retirement of its director of the African department, Abebe Aemro Selassie, on May 1, 2026. Since...
Reforming the Security Council: Power Without Accountability
The United Nations was born in 1945 out of the ashes of the Second World War, with a singular mission: to prevent another global...