The Carney middle-powers ‘doctrine’ viewed from Europe.
European leaders are gradually heeding Mark Carney’s call for divested links to the U.S.
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Protecting the Altruistic: Basic Facets of NGO Security in Conflict Zones
NGOs operate in all types of environments, including dangerous conflict zones. While they are there to help others, they have to carefully balance providing such aid and protecting their operations and staff. This article focuses on five main facets of NGO security in conflict zones, as well as highlights the best practices in each field.
Is Canada Prepared to Defend Its Arctic Sovereignty in a Militarising North?
This article explores whether Canada is truly prepared to defend its Arctic sovereignty in a region that is becoming increasingly strategic due to climate change and geopolitical competition. As melting ice opens new shipping routes and access to natural resources, global powers like Russia, China and the United States are strengthening their presence in the Arctic.
While Canada maintains a historical and political claim over the region, the country faces significant challenges including major underinvestment, limited military capabilities, outdated infrastructure and so on. The article argues that to remain credible, Canada must move beyond their symbolic presence on the territory and invest in long-term capabilities and consistent engagement in the North.
The Role of Sanctuary Cities in Enforcement of Immigration Policies in the United States
Sanctuary cities could represent one of the last defenses of states’ rights against federal immigration policy, but are they truly effective?
Dynamics Behind the EU Referendum in Iceland
Iceland faces various potential threats and opportunities that will inevitably change the country’s future and strategic independence. The current global shift towards multipolarity and unilateralism represents a serious threat to the autonomy of small states. A valuable option is signing treaties with more powerful states or joining larger international organisations.
(Analysis) The Ocasio Doctrine: Bad Bunny’s Inclusive Vision
Bad Bunny puts on a daring, exuberant, and meaningful Super Bowl Halftime Show in defiance of Donald Trump’s policies.
The Standardization Trap on the Durand Line: The Atrophy of Kinetic Deterrence
The crisis along the Durand Line enshrines the failure of Pakistan’s Standardization Trap. Islamabad, captive to a technological illusion, has reduced asymmetric conflict to a mere matter of ballistic optimization, ignoring the political ontology of the threat. The systemic deployment of UAVs and the doctrine of Targeted Killings have not degraded the TTP; rather, they have regenerated its legitimacy, transmuting the geographical sanctuary into an ecosystem of ideological resilience. In this scenario of Inverted Strategic Depth, Islamabad’s technical hypertrophy masks a terminal sociological atrophy: the State strikes the void with millimetric precision, while the insurgency roots itself within the kinetic reaction itself, rendering technological sovereignty an exercise in costly futility.
Deportation at a Distance: Return Hubs and the EU’s Politics of Externalization
The European Union’s proposed return hubs would allow some people ordered to leave the bloc to be transferred to facilities in third countries. Backers present the scheme as a practical answer to weak return rates and political pressure over migration. This article examines how the proposal emerged, how it is meant to work and why it raises sharp legal, humanitarian and political questions.
The Politics of Emergence: African Middle Powers and Strategic Cooperation on AI
The African Union (AU), in its first and only continent-wide AI strategy, turns to a familiar source of authority: an estimate of generative AI’s impact on global GDP by McKinsey. Somewhat arbitrarily, the AU extracts a neat 5 percent share for Africa and concludes that generative AI could add between $110 to $220 billion to African GDP a year. A striking figure, certainly. A very elastic one too. To dwell on the elasticity of these projections is, perhaps, to miss the point. Whether the figure is $110 to $220 billion is secondary to the conditions under which Africa’s AI gains might be realised.
The Faroese strategy in a stormy geopolitical sea
The Faroe Islands represent a unique case in which a small geopolitical actor can pursue its goals with pragmatism and determination despite its size and limited resources. The Faroese economy is mostly dominated by the fishery sector, which is also the most relevant element influencing the islands’ autonomous foreign policy and international activity.