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The Geopolitics of Lunar Helium-3 pMining and the U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund Stagnation
The greatest geopolitical and economic challenge facing the United States today is the proliferation of international Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs.) While the United States...
How Beijing Is Telling the Story of America’s 250 Years, and Why the Story Keeps Changing
When Washington celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, the celebrations will arrive bruised. There will be the customary...
Europe Needs a College of Europe at the Black Sea – part 1
Constanța on a summer evening can feel like a scene from another era—the sound of an old French chanson drifting over the promenade, families...
The Collapse of Traditional Opposition and the Emergence of “Networked” Politics in 2025
Introduction: The Year the Street Outsmarted the State
2024 was the year of the coup and 2025 was the year of the code. The dust...
Can the EU’s New Digital Rulebook Turn Transparency into Governance?
A regulatory package as a long-term political strategy
The European Union’s recent digital laws are often described as a regulatory package. The AI Act, the...
The Death of Air Superiority: How Drone Warfare Has Become Democratised
Ever since the Italo-Turkish War of 1911, when aircraft were first deployed in combat, the assumption that whoever controlled the skies controlled the conflict...
How the Cyprus Question Continues to Shape EU-Turkey Security Cooperation
As Europe’s security environment evolves, EU-Turkey relations have acquired renewed strategic importance. Yet despite Europe’s focus on its defence capabilities and Turkey’s role as...
Syria Is Building a Technocracy, Not a Democracy
On Sunday, 210 lawmakers took the constitutional oath in Damascus and elected Abdul Hamid al-Awak, a judge who defected from Assad's justice ministry and fled...
The contest for Hormuz threatens the maritime order America built
The struggle over the Strait of Hormuz is no longer simply a contest between freedom of navigation and closure. It is increasingly about who...
Tech Blitzkrieg: Drone Warfare and the Transformation of Maneuver
The battlefield has been irrevocably transformed. Imagine the thunderous advance of World War II’s Blitzkrieg, thousands of tanks massing at a single point, armored...