Publications
457 published articles
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Art & CultureBob Dylan: The Roads to the Vatican
Nearly thirty years after performing before John Paul II, Bob Dylan has been received by Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. Behind this encounter between a pontiff and a legend of American music lies a deeper history: that of an artist whose work has been shaped by faith, dissent and t
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GeopoliticsIsrael–United States: The End of Aid, Not Dependence
By announcing the early termination of annual US military assistance to Israel, Donald Trump is challenging a framework that has shaped bilateral relations for decades. Yet behind the $3.8 billion figure lies a deeper transformation: the possible transition from an alliance susta
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CorporateMeta: The Company Beyond the Algorithm
Since the rise of generative artificial intelligence, Meta has been progressively reorganizing its workforce, investments, and industrial ambitions. Behind the layoffs, the concentration of research capabilities, and the expansion of data centers lies a deeper transformation: tha
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Middle EastAramco: The Limits of Oil Power
Saudi Arabia holds some of the world's largest oil reserves and possesses production capacity that gives it considerable influence over global energy markets. Yet recent disruptions to its infrastructure have exposed a fundamental reality: possessing oil does not guarantee the ab
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Asia-PacificJapan: The Price of Industrial Consolidation
JSR–Mitsui Chemicals: A potential $8.2 billion transaction exposes the tensions between industrial policy, financial valuation and control over technologies essential to semiconductor manufacturing. November 4, 2026 — Atlas Limits | Corporate Strategy Japan may be preparing one o
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CorporateSaudi Arabia–Italy: Finance in the Service of Industry
International finance is gradually changing its function. Long regarded primarily as a mechanism for facilitating trade and investment, it is increasingly becoming a means of organizing industrial relationships between countries. Capital, public guarantees, and productive capabil
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MarketsShell–XRG: Australian Gas Changes Hands
XRG's acquisition of Shell's stake in Australia's North West Shelf project illustrates a gradual transformation of the global gas industry. As major Western energy companies restructure their portfolios, Gulf investors are expanding their presence in international energy infrastr
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GeopoliticsBlack Sea–Iran: The War Over Maritime Routes
Two maritime regions, two military confrontations, and one shared vulnerability: the world's major commercial shipping routes. The intensification of attacks in the Black Sea and renewed military tensions between Washington and Tehran reveal a profound transformation in the balan
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EuropeJD.com–Ceconomy: Europe Redraws the Rules of Foreign Acquisitions
Europe is no longer concerned solely with determining who can acquire its companies. It increasingly wants to understand how those acquisitions are financed, under what conditions they take place, and what consequences they may have for competition within its single market. The E
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EuropeSchwarz Digits–Bull: Europe’s Test of Technological Sovereignty
Europe has spent years seeking to reduce its dependence on foreign digital infrastructure. The preliminary agreement between Germany’s Schwarz Digits and France’s Bull marks another step in that ambition. By combining cloud capabilities, supercomputing expertise and artificial in
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EuropeEurope: The New Paths to Salvation
For centuries, the Church showed Europeans the path they were expected to follow. It defined virtues, condemned transgressions, organised collective obligations and promised, at the end of a life lived according to its teachings, a form of salvation. Individuals did not face the
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SocietyRacism: The Invisible Boundaries
Racism is one of those phenomena humanity has learned to condemn without managing to eliminate. It has lost much of its legal and scientific legitimacy, yet it continues to permeate societies, institutions, and human relationships. Its expressions are neither uniform nor exclusiv