Massifying Leadership to Mitigate Strategic Instability in Africa: Beyond the Craft Model Toward Agenda 2063
Massifying Leadership to Mitigate Strategic Instability in Africa: Beyond the Craft Model Toward Agenda 2063 The security landscape of contemporary Africa cannot be analyzed solely[…]
When the Lights Go Out: The Geopolitics Behind Tunisia’s Power Crisis
What happened: The Tunisian state electricity and gas utility, STEG, started cutting power on a rotating basis in mid-July. This decision came after a punishing[…]
The US–Iran war expands across the Middle East as civilian infrastructure comes under threat
The conflict between the United States and Iran has expanded across a growing part of the Middle East, with both sides carrying out attacks against[…]
A Clean Slate in the Asia-Pacific
Pete Hegseth came to the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue with a message that was, at minimum, honest. The U.S. Secretary of War told ministers from across[…]
The Strait of Hormuz is a reminder that energy security is geography
Energy markets like to speak in abstractions: liquidity, flexibility, spare capacity, hedging. Then the Strait of Hormuz appears on the map, and the language becomes[…]
Oreshnik: Russia’s hypersonic signal to the Ukraine, NATO and the West
The Oreshnik is presented by Moscow as a new-generation Russian ballistic missile with hypersonic characteristics and a high level of difficulty for interception. In technical[…]
THE TAIWAN CRUCIBLE: The contemporary global landscape is defined by an intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China…
The contemporary global landscape is defined by an intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China, with Taiwan emerging as the most volatile flashpoint.[…]
The World Awaits a Historic Peace between the USA and Iran amid Resurfaced Tensions
The second round of peace talks between the USA and Iran is now at the centre of global attention amid the resurfaced tensions between the[…]
What drives foreign policy? Understanding the different logics of China, Russia and the United States
Foreign policy is the set of decisions and priorities through which a state relates to the outside world. It is shaped by interests, goals and[…]
Iran’s Expanding Missile Arsenal and the Unsustainable Cost of Interception
Iran is believed to possess more than 17 types of ballistic missiles, and that variety matters. Not every missile presents the same challenge to defenders:[…]