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April 20, 2026

Why regime-change wars return when world order is in transition

Fulvio Attinà Why do regime-change wars re-emerge when global order is under strain? As multilateral institutions lose effectiveness and legitimacy, Fulvio Attinà argues that states are increasingly turning to unilateral or coalition-based force. Interventions such as those in Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, and Iran reflect not isolated crises, but a deeper process of coalition reconfiguration during systemic transition Read more

April 17, 2026

How Lithuania is navigating security as Pax Americana fades

Roza Roovers On 28 January 2026, Roza Roovers, Hassan Naderi Far and Gigi Maria Massaro spoke with Lithuanian security expert Margarita Šešelgytė. With global power balance in flux, Šešelgytė suggests that many traditional assumptions in international relations theory no longer explain today’s security environment Read more

April 16, 2026

Why Europe’s support for war on Iran is backfiring

Shamsoddin Shariati Europe’s support for the US-Israeli war on Iran, in the hope of securing American backing for Ukraine, is a strategic mistake, argues Shamsoddin Shariati. Rather than buying goodwill in Washington, European leaders are undermining their own security, credibility, and strategic autonomy Read more

April 10, 2026

Contested body counts, a missing airman, and the (necro)politics of America’s war in Iran

Kandida Purnell The recent rescue of a US airman from Iranian soil obscures a deeper truth. As contested casualty figures emerge from America’s war, Kandida Purnell argues that what we see, count, and mourn in war is never neutral. Rather, it is carefully governed through a longstanding necropolitical logic that shapes public perception and sustains conflict Read more

April 10, 2026

☢️ Europe is too late to play the nuclear game

Olamide Samuel France’s new nuclear posture and Russia’s nuclear build-up in Belarus have made Europe feel vulnerable. But, argues Olamide Samuel, stronger nuclear rhetoric will not make Europe safer or more independent. Europe’s real task is to rebuild arms control, consultation, and dialogue before nuclear danger becomes harder to contain Read more

April 9, 2026

The quiet power of energy dependence

Ilan Kapoor From the Strait of Hormuz to Europe’s gas crisis, energy dependence lets states project power through prices, not troops. This, says Ilan Kapoor, is reshaping geopolitical influence Read more

April 7, 2026

Iran’s voiceless majority

Hossein Kermani Hossein Kermani argues that a largely voiceless majority in Iran is routinely misrepresented by both the Islamic regime and its loudest opponents. Amid the current Iran-Israel-US conflict, he shows how many Iranians are rejecting simplistic binaries and instead are confronting the war’s causes, costs, and uncertainties Read more

March 30, 2026

How AI is becoming a core instrument of state power

Elif Davutoğlu AI companies often present their technologies as politically neutral. But as frontier models become intertwined with national security strategies, neutrality is giving way to a new reality: AI as a core instrument of state power, writes Elif Davutoğlu Read more

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