China’s clean-energy exports are dominating in the Global South, such that it is now being called an ‘electrostate.’ But this economic success story is giving rise to new political dependencies that ...

A new trade deal with the United States demonstrates how Indonesia’s nickel sector is no longer merely an industrial policy instrument – it is a geopolitical lever.

A new antidumping duty targeting Russian palladium seeks to insulate US domestic capacity of a critical mineral that plays an ...

Short-term, the policy of arming and supporting ethnic proxies could hasten the demise of the Islamic regime in Iran. But the ...

Israeli strikes on Iran: recent attacks on critical water and energy infrastructure, evidence of Iran’s ‘mosaic defense’ in ...

President Trump has signaled that he’s ready for a long war, but time isn’t necessarily on Washington’s side.

Putin Russia. It will either remain a feral, aggressive, isolated Empire, or it will fall apart with a deafening crash. A transitional, cozy European alternative for this territory simply does not ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has moved from contingency planning into operational reality, unleashing cascading effects across a swathe of commodities markets.

Like early hopes of people power standing in for boots on the ground, war by proxy is a beguiling idea: it’s hands off, ...

On 13 January 2026, the US Commerce Department revised one of the key choke points in the AI supply chain, changing the rules governing exports of Nvidia’s H200 and AMD’s MI325X and comparable AI chip ...

Despite their relative infancy, the universe of digital currencies is already increasingly plural and complex as the natural result of divergent evolution. Regarding their governance structures, the ...

In October 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin labelled Africa a region of “significant opportunity” for cooperation with Russia. Over the past two years, Russian mercenaries have increased their ...