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The United Nations: a useful failure It’s a global stage, not a world government

The United Nations may not be the beginning of the world state that Wells and Einstein and Dick imagined. Its more durable achievement may...

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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When Saudi Arabia realizes it’s backed the wrong horse

The great irony is that an American war intended to reassert U.S. power may instead reduce U.S. primacy in the Gulf. President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq removed Iran’s principal Arab counterweight and handed Tehran enormous influence in Baghdad. President Trump’s war with Iran risks a comparable strategic reversal....
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Where is the world heading?

Today, we are living in a world increasingly defined by black and white, far removed from the coexistence that once existed in shades of gray....
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Post-Liberalism Has Helped to Reinvent Far-Right Global Politics

Hannah Gurman, who teaches American Studies and history at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, is the author of several books on politics and history, including her latest, The Opportunists: The Post-Liberals and Reinvention of Reactionary Politics (The New Press, 2026). Gurman “combines intellectual biography and political history”...
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Latin America’s Long Game: Nuclear Disarmament in the Age of AI

The danger is the weapons themselves, regardless of who holds them or how responsibly they claim to. This is the logic of the Treaty of Tlatelolco. It rejects the deterrence premise outright: As long as the weapons exist, the risk of use—through accident, miscalculation, escalation, or plain malice or folly—is...
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Pernicious states: Towards a new grammar of international relations

If concepts are instruments of power, then we should examine not only the labels imposed on weaker states, but also the structures of harm created by the powerful. The question is not merely which states violate the international order. It is also which states possess the power to shape that...
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Re-Opened Veins of Latin America: This Time the Algorithm

Latin America is simultaneously a consumer market, data source, zone of expansion for digital infrastructure, and a geopolitical battleground in US rivalry with China because these two countries dominate creation and capture of value in the digital economy in an arena where the position of Latin America is tremendously vulnerable....
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US-China race for orbital supremacy could decide a Taiwan war

Dogfighting satellites, secret spaceplanes and orbital interceptors: inside the US-China buildup for war in space. US defense chiefs, including outgoing US Space Force Chief General Chance Saltzman and US Space Command head General Stephen Whiting, warn that China is developing advanced ground- and space-based counterspace systems — including jamming, lasers...
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Justice: Islam’s Shield For Survival

Justice is therefore not merely one virtue among many. It is the civilizational capital upon which trust, solidarity, stability and sustainable prosperity depend. Ibn Khaldun’s analysis shows how oppression destroys the social cohesion that enables civilizations to rise. Maulana Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi’s emphasis on faith, knowledge, fraternity, justice and...
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Making Economics Humane Again
Economics remains indispensable for checking misguided, utopian policies. It is the discipline for connecting intentions with outcomes and means with
When “Foreign Agent” Stops Being an Analysis and Becomes a Law
Researchers and policymakers working on foreign influence should pay closer attention to how their own concepts travel once they leave
Sanctions Have Become Economic Warfare
The neocons continue to believe that economic pressure will bring Russia to its knees. They never consider what happens when
How Energy, Chips and Geopolitics Are Reshaping Technology in 2026
The sequence of events over the past few years demonstrates that the future of technology will not be determined solely
AI Alarmism: Sound and Fury Signifying What?
Our lives changed from analog to digital, and so the very way we confront and deal with information, and thoughts
Europe can’t achieve space sovereignty alone. Here’s why
That is really what is at stake behind the sovereignty talk. The question raised by the summit was never whether
US Deploys Weapons in Space
Russia and China Warn of a New Arms Race. The deployment of weapons and claims of exclusivity, apart from increasing
Why the AI displacement fear is overstated
This shifts the AI and jobs debate from task exposure to actual changes in occupations and employment. Technology has historically
Between the Usa-State Inc. and China’s Party-State: AI as a Litmus Test
In the medium to long term, the solution must be found within a post-capitalist framework where the commons (not necessarily
Hardt and Negri’s Empire Got Everything Wrong
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a

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

Hannah Gurman, who teaches American Studies and history at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, is the author of several books on politics...

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...

Ernst Jünger’s reckoning with nihilism

Rey’s analysis of Jünger’s train of thought is both illuminating and by the same token unsatisfying. Ultimately, Auf den Marmorklippen, beautiful though it may be...

Le Pen-proofing the EU won’t stop the populist wave

Faced with voters they no longer understand, establishment parties console...

Does the Global Firepower Index (GFP) Reflect Countries’ Actual Warfighting Capabilities? The Case of Israel

The GFP data, which disregard the dynamics of modern warfare,...

The City Is Not London—How Babylon’s Temple Banks Built the Financial System

It does not demand worship through rituals or temples. It...

The Beginning of the End of History

Support for liberalism, as opposed to democracy, has always been...

American History and American Amnesia

Americans generally assume that there is a purity of purpose...

Israel and the Far Right Want You to Believe There Is an Islamic Invasion of the West

There is no ‘Islamic invasion’ and there is no ‘Islamization’...

25 Years After September 11: The Crisis of the American Order

The twenty-five-year balance sheet of September 11 is less a...

9/11 After a Quarter of a Century

Today anyone who believes the official story of 9/11 is...

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