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American Grand Strategy, Allied Instability, and the Cost of Strategic Primacy American grand strategy has always leaned on a pretty convenient premise, that whatever getsRead More »The Hegemon’s Playbook

  Systemic Failure, Student Dissent, and the Broadening Resistance Against State Coercion   Central New Delhi, usually pretty sterile and bureaucratic looking, recently turned intoRead More »India’s ‘Cockroach’ Generation Refuses to Be Crushed

Strategic Analysis of the US Saudi Civil Nuclear Agreement 1. A Startling Paradox in US Diplomacy When Washington and Riyadh signed a 30 year civilianRead More »Fighting Iran’s Nuclear Program, Funding Saudi Arabia’s?

Financial Hegemony, Dollar Leverage, and the Structural Dismantling of Regional Proxies   These days it’s an American envoy, not Iraq’s own prime minister, who’s actuallyRead More »How Washington Weaponized Iraq’s Oil Money

Asymmetric Warfare, Legal Ambiguity, and the Collapse of Maritime Chokepoint Security   What’s happening right now across the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab elRead More »The End of Freedom of Navigation?

Municipal Jurisdictions, Executive Shielding, and the Friction of International Warrants   The UN General Assembly’s arrival in New York this September has turned what’s usuallyRead More »Can Mamdani Really Arrest Netanyahu?

How Beijing Is Rewriting the Rules of the AI Age 1. A New Era of Technology Governance Something genuinely seismic is happening to how theRead More »The Shanghai Blueprint

How India’s Gen Z Turned Mockery into Resistance 1. The Siege of New Delhi Is India’s Gen Z finally waking up? Watching what’s unfolding onRead More »The Cockroach Revolution