While experts hold that North Korea’s stockpile is about deterrence, the public’s perception of an offensive posture could shape policy debates towards confrontational strategies.
The UK and Europe would be wise to develop their own sphere of influence before they are subsumed by one not of their own making.
Brands offers sharp Cold War insights but leans to US centrism, overlooking Global South impacts and alternative perspectives into great-power rivalry.
Trump’s America First approach, should it fail balance national interests and global diplomacy, may lead to diplomatic isolation for the US.
The 2025 Munich Security Conference solidified a decisive shift in international legal discourse, moving from the post-Cold War liberal order toward a framework shaped by realpolitik.
Europe seems to be the new “monster” of the US Presidency, but how did this come about?
As a new international system takes shape, influenced by emerging actors from the Global South, the distribution of global power is bound to continue to shift away from the Western core.
Prosecuting Mangione as a terrorist undermines his right to a fair trial and risks dismissing valid critiques of systemic healthcare inequities.
By avoiding half-baked narratives and using rich archival research, this book convincingly reveals how Cold War intelligence shaped India’s politics and security.
Any arrangement that is to guide the free world through the period of persistent uncertainty ahead, must be shielded from nationalistic and populist tendencies.
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