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Can Berlin Lead in a World That Trusts Less and Remembers More?
Germany's recent defeat may reveal a deeper challenge to its global ambitions — Countries remember more than policymakers often assume.
Jun 25
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America's Age of Adjustable Alliances
Why the United States is beginning to treat strategic problems as more important than strategic systems
Jun 19
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How Britain Built a Self-Sealing Political Economy
Britain's experience offers a warning for economies where asset wealth has outpaced productive growth
Jun 17
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The Cost of Going Alone
Japan and South Korea are converging because the world is becoming too expensive to navigate alone
Jun 14
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The Return of Kabul
Afghanistan is back on every major power’s map—not as alliance, but as attention. Why Kabul is becoming a strategic junction again.
Jun 4
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What Sits Between the Strait and the Strait
Chokepoints dominate Indo-Pacific analysis. The corridor connecting them is often overlooked.
Jun 2
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May 2026
Rose Seeds, Kill Lines, and the Dragon’s Shadow
The US-China relationship is shifting from stable interdependence toward conditional access, strategic leverage, and calibrated rivalry.
May 27
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Pakistan: From Synchronization to Fragmentation
Part 2 of 2. Part 1 mapped the vectors. Part 2 tests what happened to the map.
May 20
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Pearls, Oil, and the Third Bet
The UAE isn’t making isolated moves. It’s executing one strategy across seven domains — shaped by two memories: the pearl collapse and a war on its…
May 11
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April 2026
The AI Stack Is the New World Order — And Standards Are Its Invisible Layer of Control
AI governance isn’t being negotiated. It’s being embedded. Not in frameworks — but in compute, models, and the standards that decide what scales.
Apr 30
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Virtual Water
When India placed the Indus Waters Treaty in abeyance, it acted on a river it could see. Pakistan’s economy runs on water it imports.
Apr 28
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Pakistan: A System Under Converging Pressure
Pakistan isn't in crisis. Its pressure systems — financing, security, diplomacy, frontiers — have just stopped moving on independent clocks.
Apr 23
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