India, EU ramp up push for free-trade deal amid US tariff tensions
A trade pact with the EU would offer an ‘alternative market’ for Indian goods amid a fraught global environment. Read More Here
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Iran and the New Middle East
The end of a theocratic Iran will mean the end of the Middle Eastern region’s vortex of instability. Read More Here
Fit For Purpose? Why Global Alliances Are in Decline
In the 21st century alliances ceased to fulfill their key function — preventing conflicts. Instead, they have increasingly become sources of tension as old mechanisms of collective security no longer correspond to new realities. Read More Here
History Marches Past Davos
The World Economic Forum meeting in Davos will feature the usual pledges about stakeholder capitalism, purpose-driven business, and sustainable development. But without binding conditionalities, accountability frameworks, and risk-sharing that distinguish genuine value creators from rent extractors, it remains theater. Read More Here
Trump links Greenland threat to Nobel Peace Prize snub, EU prepares to retaliate
U.S. President Donald Trump links his drive to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and says he’s no longer thinking “purely of Peace”. Read More Here
Iran and the Limits of American Power
What a U.S. military strike would and would not achieve. Read More Here
The New Food Powers: How China and Russia Are Filling America’s Retreat
China and Russia are filling the gap after the United States ceded its role as the world’s default responder to hunger crises for the first time since World War II by replacing emergency aid with systems designed to create permanent dependencies. Read More Here
Why Trump is good for Europe
The U.S. President is forcing European leaders to look a and face the reallity of a new world order. Read More Here
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Gambits Are Reshaping the World
The sprawl of activity, unmatched by any modern American President, is the Trump Doctrine in action: American power as a lever deployed at will, subject to change at his whim, concentrated not in institutions but in the person of the President. Read More Here
The united West is dead
European leaders should heed their voters and ensure the bloc remains a pole within its own sphere of influence — not a bystander in someone else’s. Read More Here
