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The gap between Turkey and Israel is growing

The question is no longer whether such rift is limited or temporary, as it has almost reached a point of irreversibility, with Israel having...

Europe’s Rearmament: The Push for Military Spending

“We reject the militarisation of our societies and support the young people who are refusing it,” the Stop ReArm Europe coalition wrote on 23 September. “Thousands of high school students and university students across Europe are rising up to refuse militarisation and the return of conscription.” “Nearly 20 million children...
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American Soul-Searching after the Iraq Withdrawal

Our nation was founded with a limited-government republic, one with a relatively small military force. That’s because our American ancestors knew that an enormous standing army would be the greatest threat to their freedom and well-being. It’s time to dismantle the old Cold War-era national-security state and restore our founding...
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Between Trump’s US and Xi’s China, the trap India must avoid

Faced with converging and competing Sino-American imperatives, India risks drifting into the Thucydides Trap. Unfortunately, the BJP government has mired India in asymmetric relationships and a performative foreign policy that prioritises optics over tangible national interest gains. This is compounded by the BJP’s intellectual and strategic inertia, manifested in clumsy...
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Xi Jinping’s US Visit

Peace requires restraint from both sides, but restraint cannot mean that the United States surrounds China with military bases and warships and then demands that China alone remain calm. Security cannot be achieved through the permanent insecurity of another country. There will, of course, be disagreements. Collaboration does not require...
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When Orientalism Becomes a Career: From James Mill to Jared Kushner

For James Mill, knowledge about India helped produce institutional authority and personal security. For John Stuart Mill, empire could coexist with liberalism once colonized peoples were placed outside liberalism’s immediate protections. In our own century, access to Middle Eastern rulers and state capital can generate opportunities whose value is measured...
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Southeast Asia’s Room for Manoeuvre in Critical Minerals

In the final analysis, access to critical minerals will likely remain high on the regional agenda. But this is also the area in which Southeast Asian REE exporters can exercise a certain level of agency. China’s dominance of REE processing gives it considerable leverage, but this should also not be...
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Interview with Fabio Vighi On Crisis Deployment and the Collapse of Political Language

Here’s the mechanism: US federal debt is now so enormous ($38 trillion and climbing) that any rise in borrowing costs becomes an existential threat. To keep yields low, you need buyers. To get buyers, you need the dollar to remain the only safe harbour. To keep the dollar as the...
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The rise of the far right in Germany and the crisis of democratic representation

The analysis “The Far Right in Germany: Liberal Democracy’s Crisis of Representation,” written by Baki Laleoğlu of the National Intelligence Academy, has been published. It argues that the rise of the far right and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is not a reaction to temporary crises, but a consequence...
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How Intelligence Agencies Bend Universities to Their Will

Developing education that examines rather than endorses intelligence is a form of democratic accountability. This matters because intelligence agencies are anything but innocuous. They have political agendas of their own. Far from simply informing policymakers, they provide the decisions through which governments go to war, enact security legislation, and arbitrate...
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Nigeria: Too big to regulate

Dangote’s refinery ended Nigeria’s dependence on imported fuel and became Africa’s most important energy asset overnight when Iran shut the Strait of Hormuz. But it also became the country’s most powerful monopoly....
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Ethiopia’s Renewed War: Armed Coalition Escalates War
This “full-blown war,” as described by the TPLF’s (The Tigray People’s Liberation Front) vice president Amanuel Assefa, began on 23
A shield, not a sword: what the Makkah pact’s first test reveals
Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan are not yet building a coalition to fight in Yemen. Their early moves point to
Two Reasons Why the AI Industry Is Calling for Potential Nationalization
The recent AI doomer scenarios pushed by leading AI executives and amplified by the media are very suspicious. As Nat
The Forgotten Jewish Network Behind Cuba’s Fight Against Spain
The intervention in Cuba proved to be a pivotal case study for the international Jewish community, revealing the potential for
Kaliningrad is just Putin’s red herring
Putin knows how the game is played. His armies ostentatiously practice attacking and defeating NATO, while Brussels conducts defensive exercises
Everyone’s Asking the Wrong Questions About AI and Education
The narrative that AI will finally let us give every child a great education is, at best, only a modest
Russia Could Make An Energy Truce Conditional On Resuming Pipeline Exports To Europe
Restoring some of their pre-2022 complex mutual interdependence through US mediation, even if only for the wintertime, could facilitate a
Why the Trump Cabinet Opted for Existential AI Risks
In its technological naivete, the Trump administration presumes that a single nation can dominate artificial intelligence. The proposition that one
Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds the Terrible People Out of Your Life
In a world that has gone mad, it’s important to find little signposts of clarity to help you morally orient
Energy Security in an Age of Disruption
While there is no single prescription for energy security, strengthening “response capacity,” such as by establishing stockpiles, substituting sources, and

Interview with Fabio Vighi On Crisis Deployment and the Collapse of Political Language

Here’s the mechanism: US federal debt is now so enormous ($38 trillion and climbing) that any rise in borrowing costs becomes an existential threat. To...

Ex Oriente Odysseus: the Babylonian Connection of a Greek Hero

The transfer of Mesopotamian culture to Greece was multidimensional, and it also featured a very important linguistic component. Akkadian, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Semitic...

Four Questions in the Universal Quest for Meaning

Not because God saved me but not others; not because I have a deeper spirituality than others; not because I have tapped into some planetary...

When Saudi Arabia realizes it’s backed the wrong horse

The great irony is that an American war intended to...

Where is the world heading?

Today, we are living in a world increasingly defined by...

Post-Liberalism Has Helped to Reinvent Far-Right Global Politics

Hannah Gurman, who teaches American Studies and history at New...

Latin America’s Long Game: Nuclear Disarmament in the Age of AI

The danger is the weapons themselves, regardless of who holds...

Pernicious states: Towards a new grammar of international relations

If concepts are instruments of power, then we should examine...

Re-Opened Veins of Latin America: This Time the Algorithm

Latin America is simultaneously a consumer market, data source, zone...

US-China race for orbital supremacy could decide a Taiwan war

Dogfighting satellites, secret spaceplanes and orbital interceptors: inside the US-China...

Justice: Islam’s Shield For Survival

Justice is therefore not merely one virtue among many. It...

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