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Europe remains a central arena for global diplomacy, economic coordination, and security cooperation. Despite the achievements of the European Union, the region faces rising polarization, pressure from external actors, and ongoing strategic uncertainty. GCIRD analyzes these trends and their implications for Europe’s position in the world.

Bougainville, New Caledonia and the Coming Struggle for Pacific Statehood

July 8, 2026

Russia’s long-range campaign against Ukraine’s national systems

July 8, 2026

Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

June 30, 2026

The Draghi Agenda and Europe’s Shrinking Margin for Delay

June 30, 2026

The Battery Supply Chain as a New Geopolitical Battleground

China’s battery power rests less on lithium mines than on its control of refining, active materials, production machinery, factory knowledge and storage systems. The struggle now concerns which countries can keep essential industries, electricity grids and military systems operating when supply chains are disrupted.

The Battery Supply Chain as a New Geopolitical Battleground

Bougainville, New Caledonia and the Coming Struggle for Pacific Statehood

Russia’s long-range campaign against Ukraine’s national systems

Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

The Draghi Agenda and Europe’s Shrinking Margin for Delay

Europe’s New Infrastructure War Against Russia-Linked Cyber Threats

Strategic Alloys and Advanced Materials in Military Power: From Titanium and Superalloys to Hypersonics, High‑Entropy Alloys, and Circular Minerals

Titanium sponge, nickel superalloys, rare earth magnets, hypersonic ceramics, gallium, germanium, and forty more defense materials. China’s export controls, allied mine-to-magnet investments, and...

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

Europe’s New Infrastructure War Against Russia-Linked Cyber Threats

Russia-linked cyberattacks are no longer just digital disruptions. They are becoming a direct test of Europe’s critical infrastructure, civil defense, and political resilience....

April 25, 2026

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 European Union’s Persistent Current Account Surplus: A Structural Autopsy and the Case for Investment-Led Reform

The European Union has run a persistent current account surplus for nearly two decades, not from export strength but because investment collapsed in...

April 21, 2026

French Nuclear Deterrence and Europe’s New Strategic Order

France’s 2026 nuclear speech marks a more explicit European turn in its deterrence posture without abandoning sovereign control. The shift is strategically important...

April 20, 2026

France’s Delayed Rearmament

France’s 2026 update to the Military Programming Law improves the credibility of defense planning by funding capabilities that had long been under-resourced. Yet...

April 20, 2026

Europe’s Rearmament Problem

Europe is spending more on defence, but FCAS shows why money does not translate automatically into power. The project’s crisis is less about...

February 24, 2026

The New Politics of Industrial Readiness

Additive manufacturing is becoming a question of industrial readiness. For SMEs, the strategic value is not novelty but response: qualified parts, faster redesign,...

February 23, 2026

The Allies Without America

The postwar alliance system rested on the presumption of sustained American engagement. As that presumption weakens, allies confront the difficult task of redefining...

February 20, 2026

Europe

Bougainville, New Caledonia and the Coming Struggle for Pacific Statehood

Russia’s long-range campaign against Ukraine’s national systems

Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

The Draghi Agenda and Europe’s Shrinking Margin for Delay

The Battery Supply Chain as a New Geopolitical Battleground

The Battery Supply Chain as a New Geopolitical Battleground

Bougainville, New Caledonia and the Coming Struggle for Pacific Statehood

Russia’s long-range campaign against Ukraine’s national systems

Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

The Draghi Agenda and Europe’s Shrinking Margin for Delay

Europe’s New Infrastructure War Against Russia-Linked Cyber Threats

Strategic Alloys and Advanced Materials in Military Power: From Titanium and Superalloys to Hypersonics, High‑Entropy Alloys, and Circular Minerals

How Ukraine Rewrites the Economics of Combat Power in the New Revolution of Military Affairs

Europe’s New Infrastructure War Against Russia-Linked Cyber Threats

The Algorithmic Battlefield: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Modern Warfare Without Accountability

The European Union’s Persistent Current Account Surplus: A Structural Autopsy and the Case for Investment-Led Reform

French Nuclear Deterrence and Europe’s New Strategic Order

France’s Delayed Rearmament

Europe’s Rearmament Problem

The New Politics of Industrial Readiness

The Allies Without America

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