The Architecture of Capitulation: Anatomy of the Iran-U.S. Memorandum
By Timothy Snyder June 22, 2026 The geopolitical landscape shifted irrevocably this week as the United States and the Islamic...
Global Economy
The Politics of Plunder: Trump’s Governance and the Economics of State Extraction
By Aziz Huq and Tom Ginsburg June 22, 2026 The Roman Emperor Tiberius once offered a cynical piece of advice...
The Risk Premium Fallacy: Why Developing Economies Remain Undervalued
By Vera Songwe and Mahmoud Mohieldin June 17, 2026 For decades, the narrative surrounding investment in the Global South has...
The Post-Starmer Era: Britain at a Crossroads of Economic Stagnation and European Re-engagement
By Anatole Kaletsky June 18, 2026 The United Kingdom finds itself at a defining historical inflection point. As the Labour...
The New Arsenal: How AI and Autonomous Systems Are Rewriting Global Power
By Charles Ferguson June 19, 2026 The character of war is undergoing its most radical transformation since the dawn of...
The Vatican’s Moral Reckoning: Pope Leo XIV Challenges the Legacy of ‘Just War’
By Richard Haass June 19, 2026 VATICAN CITY — In an era defined by the return of industrial-scale attrition, the...
The Ghost of June 23: Reflecting on a Decade of Brexit and the Power of Counterfactual History
By Fabrizio Tassinari June 19, 2026 Introduction: The Intolerance of Inevitability Ten years have passed since the United Kingdom voted...
Beyond the TFFF: Can Financial Innovation Save the World’s Tropical Forests?
Six months after the fervor of the United Nations Climate Conference, the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF)—once heralded as a...
The Stalled Sovereign: Why Bosnia’s Dependency Trap Must End
By Carl Bildt June 19, 2026 STOCKHOLM — More than three decades after the ink dried on the Dayton Accords—the...
The Double-Edged Sword: Navigating the Dawn of Artificial General Intelligence
By Kaushik Basu June 18, 2026 The global discourse surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) has reached a fever pitch. As we...
The Sovereignty Shift: Why the U.S. Restricted Access to Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos Models
By Ren Ito June 18, 2026 In a move that has sent shockwaves through the global technology sector, the United...
The Great Contradiction: Assessing the Laissez-Faire Ideal in Modern American Politics
By Jeffrey Frankel June 18, 2026 Introduction: A Quarter-Millennium of Economic Tension Two hundred and fifty years ago, the intellectual...
