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Beyond the BRAVE Burma Act: US Myanmar Policy at a Crossroads
Policy toward Myanmar has always remained on the periphery of the American establishment's attention. It is all the more surprising that in February 2026,...
El-Sisi’s views on the U.S.–Israeli War with Iran and their Alignment with Xi Jinping’s Multipolar Vision
Chinese intelligence agencies and strategic circles in Beijing value Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's speeches before Egyptian military and security academies and institutions, in...
War Without a Center: Iran’s Mosaic Defense
For decades, modern warfare has been understood through the logic of the center of gravity—the belief that destroying an adversary’s political or military core...
Facing Current Threats to Space Security: An Urgent Need for Diplomatic Proposals
Authors: Hellmut Lagos Koller and Ambassador Felipe Cousiño Donoso*
Outer space has become an indispensable domain for modern societies, underpinning critical civilian infrastructure, global communications,...
Hormuz and the Return of Energy Panic
The world does not need a formal oil embargo to feel an energy shock. It only needs a prolonged crisis in the Strait of...
How the Iran War Is Destabilizing the Global Economy
The war launched by U.S. President Donald Trump and backed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Iran is often framed as a military...
How One Institutional Failure Enables Another
The debate over the leadership change at Bangladesh Bank is, at its core, a debate about the rules of the game in a post-uprising...
No One Behind the Wheel: Iran’s Mosaic Doctrine in Action
When a state's political leadership announces a ceasefire and its military keeps firing, the instinct is to reach for deception as the explanation. In...
Known Unknowns and Unknown Unknowns: The US-Israeli War on Iran
Modern wars are fought not only with weapons but with assumptions—and the most dangerous assumptions are often invisible to those making them. Donald Rumsfeld’s...
Trump’s Iran Uranium Plan Risks a Wider War
The reported idea of a special operation to seize Iran’s uranium should alarm anyone who still thinks there is a line between pressure and...