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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.
China’s AI Talent Camps – and What Can Europe Do?
China has turned education into a geopolitical strategy, producing the engineers behind DeepSeek, ByteDance, and more. The question is no longer whether Europe has noticed. It is whether it can respond fast enough to matter.
CK Hutchison Panama’s Port Ruling in the U.S.- China Rivalry
Panama’s Supreme Court decision declaring CK Hutchison’s port concession unconstitutional has placed a commercial dispute at the center of geopolitical scrutiny. The controversy not only raises questions about legal certainty for multinational firms, but also highlights the strategic significance of the Panama Canal amid intensifying U.S.–China competition.
(Analysis) History Rhymes: Maduro, Mossadegh, and Trump’s Oil Interests
Comparing Trump’s extraction of Maduro to the 1953 Iranian coup.
(Analysis) When Taiwan Becomes the Flashpoint: Inside the Latest Japan-China Tensions
Since Sanae Takaichi’s recent statement on Japan’s potential “survival-threatening situation,” diplomatic relations between China, Japan, and Taiwan have reached a crisis point. All three countries are navigating these new tensions. This article analyses and traces the recent debates and discussions in the three countries.
The Failure of State-Centric Counterterrorism: Misconception and Standardization in Post-2001 Afghanistan
The collapse of Kabul was no mere operational mishap; it was the final epitaph of a global security model crippled by doctrinal hubris. The failure of Mission Resolute Support is rooted in the Standardization Trap—the illusion that linear institutional models can be exported into contexts that inherently reject their ontology. Through systematic mirror imaging, the West mistook asymmetric resilience for pyramidal hierarchies, reducing strategy to a futile exercise in military technocracy. This profound intellectual blindness reveals a stubborn insistence on fighting the enemy one desires to face, while ignoring the one that actually exists.
(Analysis) AI: Friend, Fad, Or Foe? Davos 2026 Sets The Stage For An Increasing Interest In AI’s Long-term Impact
Artificial intelligence featured prominently at the 2026 World Economic Forum, framed as both a driver of productivity and a source of strategic uncertainty. Investments and leadership forecasts pointed to rapid capability gains, yet implementation data suggested that many organisations remain in pilot phases with uneven impact across sectors. At the same time, divergent regulatory approaches, emerging rules on deepfakes and electoral integrity, and ongoing debates about data governance highlighted a widening gap between technological development and institutional readiness.
(Analysis) Is Connectivity A Global Trend That May “Save MENA” from Eternal Confrontation?
Connectivity is emerging as a strategic framework linking states through shared infrastructure, trade, and human exchange. By offering a logic of engagement rooted in concrete economic interests rather than ideological alignment, it may enable MENA countries to gradually overcome patterns of historical enmity acting as a catalyst for regional stability.
The political challenges overshadowing the Dutch government’s European ambitions.
Rob Jetten’s government has an ambitious European agenda. However domestic political conditions may impede its ability to realise these.
Regime Resilience and the Limits of Coercion: Three Scenarios for the Iran War
This analysis maps three scenarios for the US-Israeli war on Iran — frozen attrition, structural escalation, and regime change — evaluated along three axes: IRGC resilience, the limits of coercive strategy, and the fractures emerging within the Western alliance architecture.