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The Japan-US currency deal could do more harm than good
In late July, Japan and the US intervened jointly to prop up a yen at its weakest since 1986. It looked decisive. Within a month, half the gains were gone, the yen was sliding again, and the underlying causes remained untouched. This piece examines why the intervention was never likely to work, what it cost Japan in reserves, fiscal leverage, and policy independence, and what it means that Washington funded its share by quietly sidelining the European Central Bank.
Australia’s Association with Horizon Europe and the EU’s Growing External Projection in Oceania
Australia’s association with Horizon Europe represents a remarkable result for the EU’s science diplomacy and strengthens the EU’s projection in Oceania. Depending on its implementation, Horizon Europe could support the transformation of bilateral agreements into a coherent regional approach.
Is Foreign Policy a Product of Interests or Identities? Analysis of the U.A.E-Israel-U.S. foreign Policymaking in the Abraham Accords
Introduction The concept of identities and interests exert a principal role in international politics as explanations for a nation’s foreign policy. Foreign policy will be argued to be produced…
Svalbard Islands: From Moby-Dick to Resource Exploitation. The Legal Struggle for Sovereignty and Strategic Position
The Svalbard Islands lie in a critical maritime corridor between the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, making it strategically significant for both Europe and global powers. Historically shaped by whaling, hunting, and trapping, Svalbard later became a center for coal mining, science, and tourism. Today, it remains a hybrid space of cooperation and geopolitical tension, increasingly influenced by Russia, Norway, and broader Arctic competition involving global actors such as China.
Beyond Borders: What Eight Arab Teams at the North American World Cup Taught Us About Transnational Identity
The 2026 North American World Cup transformed urban streets and stadiums into vibrant, stateless platforms for the Middle Eastern and North African diaspora. This article explores how millions of fans redefined transnational identity, challenged assimilation norms, and turned global sport into a powerful voice for regional solidarity.
Huione, Cambodia, and the Limits of Anti-Money Laundering
In December 2025, Cambodia’s central bank shut down Huione Group, one of the world’s largest hubs for laundering criminal money. They laundered more than $4 billion since 2021, from “pig-butchering” scams to North Korean cyber heists. Yet Huione was no underground operation. It was a polished, licensed financial institution whose legitimate business masked a vast laundering network. Why did it take so long? The answer exposes an anti-money laundering system built, almost by design, to miss exactly this kind of institution. Huione’s shutdown is being called a victory, but is it real reform, or compliance under pressure?
Italy – Türkiye and the Double Logic of Defence Cooperation
A reflection on the Italy-Turkey defence related dependencies. Interdepence has seemingly become the normal condition of modern statehood. The question is never really whether to be dependent, but on whom, on what terms, and with what degree of awareness about what you are trading away.
Bitcoin: Crypto-Anarchist Dreams or Invisible Governance?
Introduction Bitcoin has aimed to eradicate centralised control through an open-source software model enacting monetary policy. Cryptocurrency blockchain technologies, such as Bitcoin, have been valued in their transformative potential to…
Türkiye and NATO – Europe’s Future Security
The Ankara NATO summit exposed a central dilemma for European security. Türkiye is a powerful NATO ally, Black Sea gatekeeper and growing defence producer, yet remains only partly integrated into Europe’s defence-industrial architecture. As Europe rearms, Ankara’s role becomes harder to ignore and harder to resolve.
The Tyranny of Green: JIEDDO and the Illusion of Managerial Chaos Management
The JIEDDO experiment stands as the quintessential manifestation of the “Standardization Trap”, where the asymmetrical threat of the IED was reduced to a mere industrial engineering problem. By measuring progress through the deceptive lens of “green” Key Performance Indicators, the military apparatus systematically excised human reality from its strategic calculus, succumbing to a fatal cognitive distortion. This reliance on technological countermeasures—far from degrading the insurgency—merely stimulated its adaptation, turning the battlefield into a laboratory of doctrinal futility. Ultimately, the prioritization of budget management over strategic vision transformed the war into an exercise in self-referential accounting, where the obsession with statistical compliance masked a systemic inability to comprehend the political nature of the adversary and the bureaucratic management of its own defeat.