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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

Iran’s Theory of Survival and Ascent

May 5, 2026

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

May 2, 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

Security Without Command, Energy Without OPEC: China’s Strategy in the Persian Gulf

Why Coercion Fails in the Hemisphere

Rubio is right to prioritize the hemisphere, but coercion produces compliance while embeddedness produces consent that lasts. Pressure alone is not a doctrine.

April 25, 2026

How Pope Leo XIV Redefines Vatican Political Interference

The Vatican no longer asks permission to speak; under Pope Leo XIV, it uses structural moral leverage to influence war, immigration, and sovereignty...

April 25, 2026

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

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...

April 25, 2026

The war imposed on Iran and its impact on ASEAN

Higher energy costs, shipping disruption, inflation, fiscal strain, and intensifying great-power pressure are reshaping ASEAN as the war imposed on Iran turns a...

April 22, 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

AI and the Future of Critical Infrastructure Security

A new generation of frontier AI is changing the balance between attack and defense in cyberspace. As models begin to discover and combine...

April 20, 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

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