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Scars of Rwanda in El Fasher’s Demise
The ongoing war in Sudan is one of the most overlooked conflicts of the 21st century that has implications of spilling over not just...
Diego Garcia’s Special Status and Why It Was Not Negotiated
On May 22, 2025, the agreement between the UK and Mauritius concerning the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, was concluded. Both parties agreed that...
Non-Intervention Is China’s Most Effective Export
Chinese diplomacy is increasingly emerging as a niche and even more as a pragmatic alternative to governments that have been finding themselves confined in...
Churchill’s Prophecy and Ankara’s Rise: Not Wasting the Crisis of 2026
Towards the end of World War II, in the mid-1940s, Winston Churchill uttered that significant sentence, perhaps pointing to the potential benefits to be...
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...