Iran’s system is not a command-and-control state but a strategic web that is hard to map, harder to break, and built for survival.
USAID’s suspension is a catalyst for strategic realignment, indicating that the era of reliance on superpower patronage is over.
How Milei would behave in an environment of greater freedom of action than he now enjoys is an open question.
If ASEAN cannot act when its own members threaten regional peace, it risks becoming irrelevant.
Global conversations are often shaped without those most affected and structural barriers keep Global South voices out of key international forums.
Europe may be evolving toward a constitutional order where governance appears democratic in form, but increasingly functions in ways that reproduce oligarchic power.
Increasing international instability will test Australia’s political establishment to its limits.
Stability in Syria and in the wider region depends on pragmatic engagement with Ankara, not outdated assumptions about empire.
The US, a global magnet for over a million international students annually, gains far more than academic prestige from this influx.
Israeli strategic planners can see both the collapse of Iran and the waning of American military centrality as dual pathways to regional hegemony.
Olukayode Bakare analyzes coups, global rivalries, Nigeria-EU ties, and Africa’s democratic decline amid insecurity and shifting geopolitical dynamics.
The central task is not merely to outcompete China, but to reimagine power in a world of environmental limits and democratic erosion.
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