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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...

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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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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Beyond shared identity: Military cooperation across the Turkic states
Azerbaijan’s treaty with Uzbekistan adds another formal link, and exercises such as Birlestik and Power of Unity create opportunities to
The Right to Fire the Boss: Politics, Laws, and Institutions in Liberal Democracies
We have built republics where the sword of Damocles hangs over the citizen’s head—not over that of the ruler. Giving
Chairman Xi Goes to Washington
It is perhaps fitting that on the day Xi visited the White House, no major US television network covered the
Who says economic growth and social justice can’t go together?
Some of us still prefer the logic of law to the logic of force, multilateral governance to fragmentation, and digital
Deepfakes are distorting this year’s Victorian election
We have been studying political deepfakes – and how people respond to them – in the lead up to the
The Day After UNGA81: African Sovereignty
The theme of UNGA81 is “Restoring Trust, Managing Transformation: A United Nations That Delivers for All.” Africa’s wider diplomatic room
Rising from the ashes: Post-Assad Syria is slowly stirring
There have undoubtedly been many successes in Syria since the removal of Bashar Al-Assad. A mafia-like family no longer rules
Reasoning together
A factual claim still has to get the world right, whether or not anyone’s around to check it. Moral claims
Doomsday Men: What Peter Thiel Saw at Hastings
Thiel has spent a career looking for a place where a founder could still do what William did, and for
When the exception becomes the rule in world politics
The rules-based international order is not simply breaking down. Governments are increasingly governing through exceptions built into the rules themselves,

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...

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...

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,...

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