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457 published articles
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GeopoliticsKaliningrad: The Geography That Shortens the Escalation Ladder
On a map of Europe, Kaliningrad looks like an anomaly left behind by history. A Russian territory separated from Russia, wedged between Poland and Lithuania, facing a Baltic Sea whose shores now belong almost entirely to NATO members. Barely 15,000 square kilometres, less than 200 kilometres from east to west, yet one of the places where Europe’s military fault lines converge most densely.
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GeopoliticsMorocco–Spain: The Limits of Rapprochement
The itinerary comes down to two dates: Ceuta on 13 October, Melilla the following day. Announced on 1 October, Felipe VI and Queen Letizia’s trip will be their first official visit to the two cities since the king’s accession in 2014.
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Trade & IndustryGlobal Trade: The Chinese Clause Is Gradually Replacing the Common Rule
In Milwaukee on September 30, ministers gathered to discuss the global steel crisis were not merely talking about blast furnaces.
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Reports and StudiesPower: Who Holds the World?
In the strait, the ship slows. On the bridge, the officers watch the vessels ahead. Containers rise above the deck in long, stacked rows. They carry automotive parts, electrical equipment, clothing, perhaps medicines. For those awaiting delivery, this crossing is one stage in a production schedule. For the crew, it is a navigation task. Yet almost the entire architecture of global power is already present around this ship.
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Defense & SecurityUnited States: Silicon Valley enters the business of making war
At Quantico on September 30, 2026, three men found themselves around the same table. Elon Musk, whose rockets already carry American military payloads.
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GeopoliticsCeuta: Macron Europeanises the Crisis Without Blaming Morocco
Madrid was supposed to celebrate a restored relationship. Instead, it revealed how a crisis unfolding along a few kilometres of North African border is changing scale.
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Defense & SecurityMilitary AI: The Battle for the Final Say
There is now a new way to become a risk to US national security: build a technology capable of serving the military, then decide that it should not be allowed to do everything.
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GeopoliticsIraq: The End of the American Counterweight
Twenty-three years after the first American troops entered Baghdad, the last ones are leaving Iraq. The movement is infinitely quieter than it was in 2003.
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EconomicsChina: Beijing Changes the Instruments of Stimulus
For years, China’s response to the property slowdown followed a relatively predictable playbook: cut interest rates, ease purchasing restrictions, improve access to credit, support developers and mobilize state-backed banks.
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Art & CultureCharlie Chaplin: Laughter Against the Machine and Power
Two bolts arrive in front of him. Charlie Chaplin tightens them. Two more appear. He tightens those too. The assembly line accelerates.
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PoliticsMorocco: A New Political Cycle
On September 29, 2026, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, one photograph marked Morocco’s entry into a new political sequence. Six days after the parliamentary elections, Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri Head of Government and tasked her with forming the new executive. For the first time in the Kingdom’s history, a woman has reached this position.
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Central America & CaribbeanPanama: The Canal Enters the Age of Scarcity
In Panama, the distance between two oceans is measured in kilometers. But the ability to connect them is increasingly measured in meters of water.