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Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

June 30, 2026

The Draghi Agenda and Europe’s Shrinking Margin for Delay

June 30, 2026

Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC and What It Means for the GCC

May 2, 2026

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

April 25, 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

Critical Raw Materials and Transatlantic Industrial Competition

The Draghi Agenda and Europe’s Shrinking Margin for Delay

Why Abu Dhabi Walked Away from OPEC and What It Means for the GCC

Four Futures of Work: How China Disrupts the Global AI Labor Framework

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

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

The Hormuz Shock Is Reordering Energy Power

The disruption of the Strait of Hormuz is doing more than unsettling oil and gas markets. It is accelerating a strategic shift toward...

April 20, 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

China’s Arctic Role in a Securitising Region

China is tempering its Arctic rhetoric, shifting from grand connectivity ambitions to climate-science messaging and selective partnership offers. But Nordic and EU governments...

February 24, 2026

Persistent Environmental Crisis of 2026

From rising sea levels to collapsing ecosystems, environmental risks are increasingly intertwined with economic security and global power competition. The decisive question is...

February 20, 2026

Demographic Decline and the Reordering of Power, Development, and Sustainability

For much of the twentieth century, demographic anxiety centered on excess. Rapid population growth in Asia, Latin America, and parts of Africa was...

by AMIR SHAMS

February 20, 2026

From Ore to Influence: Building Allied Rare Earth Processing Hubs to Break China’s Midstream Grip

China controls nearly all heavy rare earth processing and most of the refining that turns raw ore into magnets for jets, submarines, and...

December 7, 2025

A Global Energy Order in Transition: Why Renewables Accelerate Even as the United States Reverses Course

Global investment in renewables is breaking records, reshaping industrial power and future energy security, even as the United States pulls back from clean-energy...

December 6, 2025

Liquidity Wars and the New Politics of Supply Chains

Digital platforms that finance invoices and pay suppliers early are quietly becoming one of the strongest levers in the global economy. As great...

by Amin Nouri

November 25, 2025

Climate Politics in the Age of Complex States

Rising temperatures are exposing not only a failure of ambition but a failure of governance. This essay argues that climate policy is a...

November 25, 2025