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Georgia’s Betrayal: Why the West Won’t Show Up
From its independence in 1991 until circa 2020, Georgia has maintained a healthy democracy with a vibrant civil society. It has also been eager...
The Two Triads: An Emerging Post-American Middle East
Sometime in the past twelve months, the Middle East's security architecture quietly stopped revolving around the United States. The shift has no single point...
The Morning After: What the Middle East Looks Like Now
Right after the announcement, Kuwait got hit by 28 Iranian drone attacks. The UAE faced 35. Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline, a critical piece...
Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics
As the war wages on in three different regions of the world, among many others that go unaccounted for, the political gaze is shifting...
What the US-Israel War on Iran Means for the Long Term
The recent US-Israel attacks on Iran has triggered an avalanche of analysis by a range of different specialists on the many media platforms that...
The New Intelligence Challenge: How China Exploits Israel’s Internal Divisions to Outmaneuver Mossad
The Israeli intelligence apparatus, particularly the Mossad and Shin Bet, faces a growing challenge stemming from the Chinese strategy of its State Security Service...
War, Energy, and the Remaking of Global Order in Beijing’s Image
The looming May 14–15 summit in Beijing between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping presents a puzzle that conventional geopolitical maps struggle to navigate. As...
Is Britain considering a return to the EU?
No one should be surprised by the growing number of voices calling for Britain to return to the EU, or at least to accelerate...
The Continent That Believed Geopolitics Had Ended
For more than three decades, Europe behaved as if history had granted it a permanent exemption from geopolitics. The end of the Cold War,...
How Russia’s Network Collapse Exposes the Limits of Nuclear Deterrence
Russia holds a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, commands the world's largest nuclear arsenal, and occupies a landmass spanning eleven time...