Governance & Public Policy

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

November 25, 2025

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

November 25, 2025

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

November 25, 2025

Rare Earths and the Hard Edge of Interdependence

November 25, 2025

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

Global investment in renewables is breaking records, reshaping industrial power and future energy security, even as the United States pulls back from clean-energy support. This analysis examines how falling technology costs, Asian manufacturing dominance, rising electricity demand, and geopolitical realignments are driving the fastest transformation of the global power system in decades, and why the consequences of America’s divergence will be long-lasting.

The Fifth Industrial Front and the Contest for Power and Work

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Navigating a New Energy Investment Landscape

Global energy is shifting from a cheap-capital, Paris-era boom in renewables to a harder, more fragmented investment landscape where security, cost and competitiveness...

November 23, 2025

Iraq’s Election as a New Operating System for US Iran Competition

Iraq’s November 11 election has not tilted the country decisively toward Washington or Tehran but has reset the rules of their competition inside...

November 23, 2025

Europe’s Hard Power Moment: Can the EU Turn Rearmament Into Real Autonomy?

Europe is rearming at a speed it has not seen in decades, but its ability to fight without American backbone still rests on...

November 23, 2025

Quebec After Three Decades of Change: A Richer Province Facing Tougher Pressures

Quebec has grown wealthier, more equal, and more fully employed since the 1995 referendum, yet its shrinking demographic weight, rising health-care costs, and...

November 23, 2025

Why Europe’s Human Capital Strategy Decides its Geopolitics

Europe’s clean-tech plans hinge less on subsidies than on whether it can train and attract the people needed to build and operate its...

November 23, 2025

From Cloud Outage to Command Vulnerability: How Grid Hardware, Critical Minerals, and Chinese Industrial Policy Rewire U.S. Compute Power

The October 2025 AWS us-east-1 outage is used to show how U.S. and allied command, finance, and logistics now depend on a cloud...

November 23, 2025

China–Russia Military Cooperation on Taiwan: How a Battalion Contract Becomes a Two-Theater Problem

China’s quiet decision to let Russia train a PLA airborne battalion for operations against Taiwan is more than a technical upgrade. It signals...

November 23, 2025

China’s New Playbook for Latin America

China’s role in Latin America is shifting from headline-grabbing loans and mega-projects to a quieter strategy built around control of critical nodes, the...

November 23, 2025

Perpetuity Protocols: Africa’s Long-Running Presidencies and the Political Thermodynamics of Longevity

Perpetual presidencies in Africa are less an anomaly than the product of deliberate political engineering. Postcolonial hyper-presidentialism has evolved into a modern toolkit...

November 23, 2025

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