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The Filipino Paradox: the Causes of Unwanted Teenage Pregnancies
Despite passing landmark reproductive health legislation in 2012, the Philippines faces a deepening crisis. While overall fertility rates have declined, pregnancies among girls aged 10 to 14 are rising. This article examines three structural causes that explain why the RH Law is reaching some women but leaving the youngest and most vulnerable girls behind.
Traore Playbook: Populist Legitimacy in the Age of Military Coups
How does a military leader maintain popularity despite rising violence? This analysis explores Ibrahim Traore’s populist playbook in Burkina Faso, examining how the junta uses a narrative construction to secure legitimacy in the absence of elections.
A history of reversal: Egypt’s descent into Israeli Energy Dependency
Egypt’s aspiration to become a regional energy hub clashes with its current reality. Following a drastic decline in local production—most notably from the Zohr field—Cairo finds itself increasingly indebted and reliant on energy imports. Driven by geopolitical necessity, Egypt has deepened its ties with Israel, signing one of the largest gas export agreements in history in 2025 to secure its energy future. Nonetheless, it brings forward a narrative to become a gas energy hub for the East Mediterranean, despite not being able to satisfy its own demand.
The Carney middle-powers ‘doctrine’ viewed from Europe.
European leaders are gradually heeding Mark Carney’s call for divested links to the U.S.
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.