The Ghost of China’s One-Child Policy The ghost of China’s one-child policy continues to cast a long and ominous shadow, its most stark manifestation being a staggering gender imbalance. D...
“What’s going on?” We crave a simple narrative, a clear trajectory that allows us to grasp the present and confidently predict tomorrow’s headlines. Wouldn’t that be comf...
Effective deterrence hinges on credible commitment: the aggressor must believe the cost of their actions will far outweigh any gain. Europe’s handling of Ukraine has been a masterclass in t...
Germany’s intelligence agencies—particularly the BND (Germany’s key service abroad) has long operated under unique constraints compared to Western counterparts, therby making Germany mo...
Power is the possibility to inflict pain. Power is the possibility to inflict pain. This is the fundamental truth of relations—personal or international. Yet Europe, especially Western Europe, has w...
A Hidden Network at Risk The Baltic Sea has become a critical hub for Europe’s energy and communications, crisscrossed with pipelines, data cables, and transmission lines from offshore wind farm...
In a move that underscores the dramatic realignment of Middle Eastern alliances, Israel has quietly urged the U.S. to allow Russian military bases to remain in Syria. Behind this unorthodox request li...
Has anyone else thought of Rearden’s wife while observing European politicians bashing Donald Trump? I remember Rearden’s wife in Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged to belittle individual merit and...
Lebanon’s president on Monday ordered troops to retaliate against the source of gunfire from the Syrian side of the border after a night of deadly clashes erupted along the frontier. The Lebanese He...
In a world where geopolitical instability is increasing day by day, the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany, finds itself in a worrying state of shortages and lack of capabilities. Germany, Europe...
Recently an keynsian style economic conference left me with some lingering questions about the discipline’s ability to grapple with the messy realities of politics, power, and human behavior. The op...
Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and annexed Crimea in 2014. It meddled in Syria, prolonging Assad’s brutal rule. For over a decade, the United States urged Germany to increase its military spending. ...
