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The Drone at the Dock: Europe’s Ports Are Becoming Security Frontlines
A naval drone incident near Romania’s Port of Constanța turned into a symbol of Europe’s changing security landscape. This analysis argues that ports are no longer only commercial gateways, but strategic nodes where trade, energy, military mobility, cyber risk and hybrid threats meet. Using Constanța as an example, the article explores how the EU’s new port-security agenda reflects a wider shift in European security thinking.
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.
The potential of the Italian-German cooperation for the European Union
The potential of the Italian-German cooperation represents not only a valuable opportunity for the two countries involved but for the entire European Union. Given the two countries’ similar industrial landscape and integrated value chains, they still represent one of the main industrial bastions of the EU and their partnership can bring considerable results in key manufacturing and innovation sectors.
(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.
The Nexperia Affair – and what it reveals about Europe and China
A never-before-used Dutch emergency law, a suspended Chinese CEO, and a Beijing export ban that nearly stopped Volkswagen’s production line. The Nexperia affair turned an unglamorous chipmaker into the flashpoint of an EU–China struggle over strategic industry. China’s swift retaliation revealed just how fragile Europe’s grip on its own industrial base has become, and how readily economic interdependence is now used as a weapon.
[REPORT] More Human in Times of Ever More Artificial: A New Window of Opportunity for Mediating Vatican Diplomacy?
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As artificial intelligence increasingly transforms societies, economies, and political systems, questions of ethics, human dignity, and social cohesion gain renewed importance. This paper explores the potential role of Vatican diplomacy in addressing these challenges. Drawing on Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” (2026), it argues that the Holy See represents a unique source of moral authority and soft power in a rapidly changing world. Unlike actors relying on military or economic influence, Vatican diplomacy promotes dialogue, mediation, and human-centered development. In an age shaped by competing technological futures, it may help foster alternative narratives grounded in solidarity, peace, and human dignity.
Water We Going to Do? An Analysis of Water Security and Diplomacy
With climate change rapidly progressing, water is increasingly becoming more scarce. Countries are looking to secure current and future access to the precious resource, creating an arena of tension and potential conflict. This analysis looks at how and why conflict erupts over water, as well as how water cooperation and diplomacy offer a win-all situation to all stakeholders involved.
Leapfrogging into the Dark: Artificial Intelligence and the Limits of Developmental Transcendence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is recognised as a general-purpose technology capable of compressing developmental trajectories, transcending historical constraints, and catalysing broad-based economic progress in the Global South. In Africa particularly, an increasingly prominent Promethean discourse imagines AI as possessing a uniquely elastic and scalar capacity for cross-sectoral integration, capable of generating developmental gains across healthcare, education, agriculture, finance, and public administration; the dream, in its fullest iteration, being of a continent that inherits abundance without enduring the long, grinding ordeal of industrialisation that was, in any case, never fully permitted to run its course. In their more modest expression, these visions are not unsubstantiated – cases of AI-assisted healthcare delivery in Kenya and AI-enabled education services in Rwanda, inter alia, lend credence to AI’s elasticity. Yet, given the scale of capital investment and depths of institutional capacity required for their realisation, the conditions underpinning these claims nevertheless warrant closer examination.
When the Best Leave: Emigration as Regime Stabilizer in the Arab World
It is a striking political paradox: the very mass exodus that signals a country’s governance failure is often what keeps its leaders in power. For decades, Middle Eastern regimes have quietly mastered the art of treating the exit door not as a crisis, but as a survival tactic. By allowing millions of frustrated, educated young citizens to leave, ruling elites manage to systematically export their most potent critics and outsource their economic failures before domestic anger can boil over into organized revolt.
(Analysis): Back After a Decade: Decoding the CCP–KMT Leadership Meeting
Beyond the usual rhetoric, the restored CCP–KMT meeting after a decade raises questions about Beijing’s cross-strait strategy and what the KMT under Cheng Li-wun is trying to achieve politically.