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Blue Waterways: Reconnecting Europe Through Its Rivers
Europe has spent decades building connectivity on land. High-speed railways, motorways, bridges, tunnels, ports and logistics hubs have transformed the continent into one of...
Africa-EU Relations in a Shifting World Order: How Emerging Powers Are Reshaping Economic Ties
With the current geopolitical shifts and the emergence of a multipolar world, political, economic, and diplomatic relations between countries are changing. Through BRICS and...
Why a Rate Hike Can Still Weaken a Currency
Japan did what economic intuition says should strengthen a currency. On September 18, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its policy rate by 25...
China’s Foreign Policy Explained: From Civilization-State to the Tianxia Worldview
The world is currently facing persistent value conflicts, with the diversity of civilizations under threat. Growing isolationism, a rise in protectionism, a downtrend of...
Africa Energy Week: Africa Must Prioritize Its Energy Security
Convening energy ministers, investors, financiers, and experts for the next African Energy Week (AEW), on October 12–16, in Cape Town, South Africa, aims at...
Kazakhstan’s Kurultai Reform: How AI and Digital Governance Are Reshaping Central Asia
Kazakhstan has very recently completed a major constitutional reform. On 23 August 2026, the Central Asian state held the first election of deputies to...
When Orientalism Becomes a Career: From James Mill to Jared Kushner
In Benjamin Disraeli’s 1847 novel Tancred, there is a short line that Edward Said would return to more than a century later: “The East...
Germany’s Zeitenwende: The Turning Point Before 2029
On February 27, 2022, three days into a war nobody in Berlin had planned for, Olaf Scholz walked into an emergency session of the...
AI Governance Must Not Become a Geopolitical Battlefield
As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump prepare to meet next week, artificial intelligence governance will stand as one of the...
Ratcliffe in Cairo: Why China Is Watching U.S.-Egypt Security Ties
China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) is monitoring the surprise official visit of CIA Director John Ratcliffe to Cairo on Sunday, September 20, 2026,...