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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...
The Fatigue of Outrage: Measuring the Erosion of Collective Conscience Amidst Global Conflict
In the dawn of March 2026, the security architecture of the Middle East reached a nadir as the kinetic escalation between Israel and Iran,...
They Manufactured the Silence. We Called It Consensus
The international community has a structural problem in reading conflicts: it treats silence as neutrality, when in fact silence is a manufactured condition. When...
Saudi Arabia Draws a Red Line
Saudi Arabia’s interception of missiles aimed at Prince Sultan Air Base near Riyadh should not be treated as another passing headline. It is a...
Preparing for the Pacific by Watching the Gulf: China Models Multi-Platform Strikes Amid Iran Tensions
The Missile Saturation Theory is the core of the Chinese military strategy being implemented or proposed in the context of cooperation with Iran. It...
Escalation, Contagion and Isolation: The Ongoing War Against Iran
With conflict spreading across the region and the death toll surpassing 1,000, America and Israel’s war on Iran shows no signs of slowing. Rather,...