Americas
From Canada to the Southern Cone and across the Caribbean, the Americas form a region defined by shared borders, economic links, and longstanding diplomatic ties. Today, these relationships are being tested as outside actors expand their presence and regional priorities shift. GCIRD explores these transformations and their strategic significance.
Four Futures of Work: How China Disrupts the Global AI Labor Framework
Three Western views on AI and jobs warn of collapse, gradual shift, or net creation. China operates on a fourth logic that treats...
April 25, 2026
How Ukraine Rewrites the Economics of Combat Power in the New Revolution of Military Affairs
For three decades, Western militaries built exquisite platforms for high end war. Ukraine proved that assumption wrong. This analysis reveals how affordable drone...
April 25, 2026
Strait of Hormuz Crisis: Iran, Energy Security, and the Future of US-China Rivalry
The Strait of Hormuz crisis has become a test of global energy security, US credibility, China’s strategic positioning, and alliance cohesion in an...
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The Algorithmic Battlefield: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Modern Warfare Without Accountability
Artificial intelligence now drives targeting decisions in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, compressing kill chains from days to minutes. Yet no one is held...
April 22, 2026
The Price of Safe Transit
A ceasefire has frozen the US‑Israel‑Iran conflict but not restored free passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran now proposes a per‑vessel toll...
April 21, 2026
Forty-Eight Hours to Breakdown: The Narrow Path Between Ceasefire and Escalation in the U.S.–Iran Crisis
With the ceasefire hours from expiration, the real question is no longer whether tensions will rise, but whether Washington and Tehran can still...
April 20, 2026
The Hidden Security Costs of the U.S.-Iran War
The ceasefire between the United States and Iran has paused open hostilities, but it has not restored stability. The deeper effects of the...
April 20, 2026
The Military Anatomy of the Israel-United States war on Iran
An in-depth look at the weapons, airpower, missiles, drones, defense industries, materials, and strategic logic shaping the Israel-Iran war, with close attention to...
April 7, 2026
The Pacific’s Geoeconomic Exposure to the Persian Gulf Shock
The Pacific Island countries are not insulated from the war by distance. Their heavy dependence on imported fuel, limited storage, fragile shipping links,...
April 6, 2026
Strategic Non-Closure in the War on Iran
The unprecedented expenditure of Tomahawk missiles in the war imposed on Iran reveals more than the scale of coalition firepower. It exposes the...
by Amin Nouri
April 6, 2026
