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When former enemies make peace, governments must reconsider how they remember the dead. From France and Germany to Egypt, Israel and Japan, this essay explores the politics of wartime sacrifice and who has the authority to interpret it.
Elections determine who enters parliament, but not necessarily who governs. From Italy to Belgium and Sweden, this analysis reveals how political exclusion reshapes coalitions, bargaining power and democratic representation.
Protests can cross borders without their grievances crossing with them. What travels may be tactics, expectations and political possibility. The real danger begins when separate frustrations start to synchronize.
Modern states increasingly depend on private companies for satellites, cloud infrastructure, AI and critical technical expertise. The result is not a secret government behind government, but a web of mutual dependence in which legal authority and the practical ability to act no longer always belong to the same institutions.
As senior U.S. officials invoke biblical language during a live Middle East conflict, this article examines the distance that must remain between private revelation, public power and the decision to use force.
The world watches who might cut undersea cables. Far less attention goes to what happens next: the ships, permits, spare cable and quiet decisions that determine which connection is restored first.
The next major conflict in space may be decided less by how many satellites are destroyed than by which side can keep communications, navigation, intelligence and critical systems working under attack.
Europe is wealthy, influential and increasingly committed to defence, yet it often struggles to act as a strategic power. This analysis examines how fragmented decision-making, military dependencies and competing national interests prevent Europe from turning its considerable resources into coordinated action.
Diplomatic unpredictability can win concessions today while weakening influence tomorrow. This analysis explores how shifting threats erode trust, encourage allies and rivals to seek alternatives, and gradually undermine the power behind coercive diplomacy.
The international order never eliminated great-power privilege. It made that privilege part of a bargain: unequal authority in exchange for
