Governance & Society

How Immigration Shapes America’s Workforce and Growth in an Era of Crackdowns

December 6, 2025

Tanzania After the October Massacre: Power, Protest and the Future of Its Democracy

December 6, 2025

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

November 25, 2025

Trade in Financial Times and the New Fault Lines of Globalisation

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.

Tanzania After the October Massacre: Power, Protest and the Future of Its Democracy

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

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

How circular economy is colliding with global trade and climate politics

Circular economy is no longer a recycling sideshow. Trade in scrap metals, plastics and used components is turning into a strategic arena where...

November 25, 2025

Europe’s circular economy agenda as international strategy

Circular economy has moved from technical jargon to a lever of power. The EU now uses rules on design, repair, waste and materials...

November 25, 2025

Trump, Pakistan and the Return of Transactional Bargains

Trump’s second term has pulled Pakistan back into Washington’s game as a supplier of troops, access and political cover in Gaza and Afghanistan...

November 23, 2025

Trump 2.0 and the Repricing of the US–Saudi Relationship

Trump’s second term has rebuilt the US–Saudi partnership into the main axis of Washington’s Gulf strategy, anchored in a new Strategic Defense Agreement,...

November 23, 2025

Fragile Integration in Syria’s Northeast

The October 2025 deal folding the SDF into Syria’s national army eases an immediate security problem for Damascus, Ankara and Washington, but leaves...

November 23, 2025

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

Gaza Between International Control and Palestinian Sovereignty

Washington is asking the UN Security Council to bless a sweeping new order for Gaza built around an international “Board of Peace” and...

November 23, 2025

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