Americas

From Canada to the Southern Cone and across the Caribbean, the Americas form a region defined by shared borders, economic links, and longstanding diplomatic ties. Today, these relationships are being tested as outside actors expand their presence and regional priorities shift. GCIRD explores these transformations and their strategic significance.

From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

December 7, 2025

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

December 7, 2025

Long Rates in a Fragmented Global Economy

December 6, 2025

A Global Energy Order in Transition: Why Renewables Accelerate Even as the United States Reverses Course

December 6, 2025

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

Growing turbulence in the maritime and space domains is reshaping strategic competition, as disruptive tactics, fragile infrastructure and shifting industrial power undermine long-standing assumptions about global stability. The emerging contest is defined less by open confrontation than by persistent ambiguity and pressure that steadily reshapes the balance of influence.

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

An Unraveling Consensus: Ukraine’s Governance Crisis, US Retrenchment, and the Strategic Costs of Corruption in Wartime

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

by david

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

When the AI Boom Stumbles: How a Market Slide Could Reshape American Power and Asia’s Balance

Growing fears of an AI downturn are colliding with intensifying U.S.–China rivalry. A sharp correction could fuel pressure to loosen chip controls, tempt...

December 6, 2025

A New Strategic Schema: Interpreting the 2025 National Security Strategy as a Turning Point in American Statecraft

A new vision of American power is emerging, which is rooted in sovereignty, economic strength, and a reordered global agenda. It redefines competition...

December 6, 2025

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

Digital platforms that finance invoices and pay suppliers early are quietly becoming one of the strongest levers in the global economy. As great...

by Amin Nouri

November 25, 2025

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

Tariffs are returning just as tighter global credit and a powerful financial cycle come to dominate world trade. The convergence of weaponised trade...

by david

November 25, 2025

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

The next industrial revolution is not just about smarter factories but about geopolitics and social order. This essay argues that the shift from...

November 25, 2025

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Rising temperatures are exposing not only a failure of ambition but a failure of governance. This essay argues that climate policy is a...

November 25, 2025

From Chokepoint to Network in the Geopolitics of Rare Earths and US-China Rivalry

Rare earths have turned from obscure inputs into one of the sharpest tools in US-China competition. China still dominates processing and magnet production,...

November 25, 2025

Rare Earths and the Hard Edge of Interdependence

China’s grip on rare earth processing has turned obscure minerals into one of the sharpest tools in its strategic contest with the United...

November 25, 2025

Hierarchy, Dependence and United States Foreign Military Sales in the Contemporary Security Order

The United States now provides nearly half of global major weapons exports, and its Foreign Military Sales programme has become a central tool...

November 23, 2025

Trump’s Venezuela Escalation Toward Coercive Diplomacy and Regime Change

Washington has moved from sanctions to gunboat pressure on Venezuela, sending a carrier strike group to the Caribbean and branding parts of Nicolás...

November 23, 2025

Americas

From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

Long Rates in a Fragmented Global Economy

A Global Energy Order in Transition: Why Renewables Accelerate Even as the United States Reverses Course

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

The Strategic Unraveling of the Global Commons: Space–Maritime Entanglement in 2025

Global South Leadership and the Emerging Developmental Regime for AI Governance

An Unraveling Consensus: Ukraine’s Governance Crisis, US Retrenchment, and the Strategic Costs of Corruption in Wartime

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

When the AI Boom Stumbles: How a Market Slide Could Reshape American Power and Asia’s Balance

A New Strategic Schema: Interpreting the 2025 National Security Strategy as a Turning Point in American Statecraft

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

From Chokepoint to Network in the Geopolitics of Rare Earths and US-China Rivalry

Rare Earths and the Hard Edge of Interdependence

Hierarchy, Dependence and United States Foreign Military Sales in the Contemporary Security Order

Trump’s Venezuela Escalation Toward Coercive Diplomacy and Regime Change

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