Articles

Trilateral Lessons from the 1980s for Today’s Indo-Pacific Challenges

Ju Hyung Kim • Nov 9 2025 • Articles

The yardstick of success is an alliance structure between the US, Japan, and South Korea that functions even when friendship falters.

Opinion – Changing Frontiers of Sino-US Technological Competition

Xinger Wei • Nov 9 2025 • Articles

The future contest will not only centre on who can build the most powerful chips, but on who can set the rules governing their use and exchange.

The Reluctant Empire: The United States and America

Francisco Lobo • Nov 9 2025 • Articles

America, the continent, has always been a place to welcome those who decided that staying put was not going to cut it.

Opinion – Federalism: The Best Path for Syria’s Future 

Ali Askerov • Nov 5 2025 • Articles

If Syrians can build a federal state with strong constitutional guarantees they would create a model for coexistence in the Middle East.

Opinion – Will NATO Collapse? Gamers Rejoice

Jack Dulgarian • Nov 4 2025 • Articles

Battlefield 6’s plot may not be realistic now, but we can speculate that mercenary organizations over the next decade may come to comparable power status as nation-states.

To Be Feared Is to Be Free: Macron’s Realist Turn

Arthur Michelino • Nov 3 2025 • Articles

By bringing Machiavelli and Schmitt back into the language of a liberal democracy, Macron announced more than a rhetorical shift.

The Emerging World Order in the 21st Century: An English School Approach

Global International Society will survive, though it will be neither under the aegis of the hegemonic Liberal International Order nor a bipolar Cold War-type order.

The Grand Inquest of the World: British Imperialism and Europe

Francisco Lobo • Nov 2 2025 • Articles

We don’t need to get rid of the British Museum, what we need is more British Museums around the world, where kids of all places can access this kind of knowledge in their own towns.

Opinion – The Poverty of Rational Trumpism

Richard W. Coughlin • Nov 1 2025 • Articles

Rational Trumpism is the intellectual face of a collapsing order that still believes it deserves to rule the world.

The Formidability of Constitutional Challenges to Quebec’s Laicity Law

Sirvan Karimi • Nov 1 2025 • Articles

The federal government’s expectation that the Supreme Court should restrict the invocation of section 33 reveals its lack of viable options to challenge Quebec’s Bill 21.

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