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The Hormuz Dividend and Malaysia’s Middle Power Gambit in a Fragmenting Order
With the Strait of Hormuz, which is one of the most important energy chokepoints in the world, disrupted by conflict, global shipping has been...
A War That Targets Women: Sudan’s Silent Crisis
Sudan has been going through a brutal conflict since 2023. But no one stopped or cared about people of Sudan. War has always been...
From one energy crisis to another: Europe’s dependence problem
The latest energy crisis stemming from the war in Iran and the ensuing closure of the strait of Hormuz is shining a light on...
Drones Above, Law Below: The Crisis of Modern Warfare
In March and April 2026, drone warfare has entered a new disturbing phase, one that not only reveals the cruelty of the present-day conflict,...
Energy Transition, geopolitical Fragmentation, and the Iran Conflict
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Data Ownership in the Era of Data Colonialism
The historical adage of “data is the new oil’’ has become a geopolitical reality. However, while oil is a physical resource, data is an...
Reality check: Kamil Idris’ Al-Jazeera article misses the Sudan peace point again
There will not have been many international leaders taken in by Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris’ opinion article published this week on the Al-Jazeera...
The Strait as Fault Line: How Iran is Using Hormuz to Farm Sino-American Friction
There is a reading of what Iran is doing at the Strait of Hormuz that has become almost reflexive in commentary: Tehran is challenging...
Why the US is really after China in Iran
Since the US-Israeli war on Iran began on February 28 and since it went downhill from there — unlike the operation in Venezuela —...
US Beats a Retreat: The Cost of Overstretch
Enveloped within the Conditional two-week Ceasefire deal and the dwindling Peace talks is a lesson for the US to avoid overstretching its power beyond...