Can Europe Be Pragmatic With Prague?
Europe stands at a crossroads as Great Power Politics return. Can Europe mend its relations with Prague amid historic external challenges?
Tag: United States
The Decline of the USMCA Renewal: Tariffs and Trade Tensions
The 2026 review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) resulted in a U.S. decline to renew and a major departure from North American trade policy. Points of contention quoted in the U.S. decline of negotiation included strict rules of origin, rising trade deficits, and trade policy on non-regional goods. This article examines the reasons behind the decline and how the decline of the renewal will affect North American economic integration.
Europe’s AI Infrastructure Challenge: Beyond Foreign Clouds
Europe wants to become an AI power, but ambition requires more than regulation. It requires compute. As the EU expands its data centres, cloud infrastructure and semiconductor capabilities, it faces a difficult balance between technological autonomy, global competition and the physical limits of AI development.
(Analysis) Critical Minerals and the U.S.–China Strategic Playbook
In 2026, the United States and China are advancing competing strategies to secure critical minerals supply chains and strengthen their positions in the evolving international order. This article explores the key developments, policy initiatives, and strategic trends driving the critical minerals race, highlighting how resource nationalism is becoming an important determinant of national power and geopolitical leverage.
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[Analysis] The Hungarian election and its ramifications for Europe
Hungary’s April election was closely watched as test case for illiberalism’s survival, and it presented a sea-change to domestic, foreign, and European policy more broadly.
Control, Compute, and a Global Open-Source-Offensive: Beijing’s Blueprint for AI Dominance
The United States and China are increasingly locked in a competition over the future of artificial intelligence, but they pursue fundamentally different strategies. While the US channels massive private investment into the race toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), China focuses on three core pillars: maintaining political control over AI systems, achieving technological self-reliance in semiconductor production, and promoting open-source AI models as global alternatives to Western platforms. Through initiatives like the AI+ program and its latest Five-Year Plan, Beijing aims to integrate AI deeply into industry, infrastructure, and national security rather than concentrating solely on frontier AI research.
The Carney middle-powers ‘doctrine’ viewed from Europe.
European leaders are gradually heeding Mark Carney’s call for divested links to the U.S.
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?
(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.