Featured Articles

Analysis

Opinion & Reflection

Historical Perspectives

In Focus

Browse All Sections

From Law Enforcement to Zones of Exception

TheOtherPen Jan 31, 2026
From Law Enforcement to Zones of Exception

From Law Enforcement to Zones of Exception U.S. Immigration Policy Between Present Reality and Future Consequences…

The Fragility of Unity: How External Pressure Tests Europe’s Strategic Cohesion

TheOtherPen Jan 28, 2026
The Fragility of Unity: How External Pressure Tests Europe’s Strategic Cohesion

Many observers note that external pressure rarely aims at institutions first. Instead, it targets cohesion. In…

Pressure as Policy: Why Strategic Ambiguity Has Returned to Western Diplomacy

TheOtherPen Jan 28, 2026
Pressure as Policy: Why Strategic Ambiguity Has Returned to Western Diplomacy

According to a growing number of political analysts, the defining feature of contemporary Western diplomacy is…

The Myth of a Rules-Based International Order: Power, Hypocrisy, and the Unmasking of Global Governance

TheOtherPen Jan 26, 2026
The Myth of a Rules-Based International Order: Power, Hypocrisy, and the Unmasking of Global Governance

For decades, the international system has been presented—especially to the Global South—as a “rules-based order” founded…

How the World Is Being Consumed: The Dark Side of Contemporary Capitalism

TheOtherPen Jan 18, 2026
How the World Is Being Consumed: The Dark Side of Contemporary Capitalism

For much of the twentieth century, capitalism was widely credited with lifting hundreds of  millions of…