The New US National Security Strategy: A Transactional Document that Marginalizes Africa
The first official National Security Strategy (NSS) of the second Trump administration, dated November 2025 and publicly issued in...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The New US National Security Strategy: A Transactional Document that Marginalizes Africa
A nation must think before it acts.
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Central Asia Has a Drug Problem, and It Is Growing Worse
Not long after late 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan became independent,...
Czech Elections: Back to the Future as Andrej Babiš Sweeps to Victory
The Czech Republic, in a widely predicted result, returned former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and his ANO movement to...
Want of Frigates: Why Is It So Hard For America to Buy Small Surface Combatants?
“The last Fleet was lost to me for want of Frigates; God forbid this should.” Lord Horatio Nelson, letter...
Data Centers at Risk: The Fragile Core of American Power
On October 20, 2025, a glitch at an Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in northern Virginia triggered more...
Collective Seapower: NATO’s New Maritime Strategy
NATO has finally unveiled its new Alliance Maritime Strategy, refreshing a document that had not been publicly updated since...
Syria’s Fragile Transition and the Enduring Minority Question
Nearly a year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and...
The Feudalization of Mali
Bamako is living on the precipice. Nervous hotel owners complain about a lack of electricity, but this time it’s...
America, Incorporated: The Era of the Portfolio State
For much of the last century, the American state has intervened directly in the economy only in times of...
The GERD Dispute: Lessons for Water Governance and the Future of the Nile Basin
Introduction Water-related conflict is among the key concerns for a future marked by rising incidences of droughts, increasing water...