Power & Geopolitics
The Architecture of Power
How states, markets, and movements contest authority and redraw the global map.
The New Iron Curtain: How Fiber-Optic Cables Redraw Global Fault Lines
In the middle of the North Sea, ships drop anchor not for trade, but to lower a different kind of…
Floodplain Futures: Who Gets to Stay When Cities Retreat?
When floodwaters rise high enough to claim streets twice in a decade, the question facing city governments shifts from “how…
The Pandemic Treaty Dilemma: Global Solidarity vs. National Sovereignty
When COVID-19 swept across the globe, it revealed a paradox: pandemics are borderless, but power is not. Viruses moved freely,…
Empires in Retreat: The New Scramble for Bases Abroad
On the scorched island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, cargo planes roar off a runway carved by Cold…
Chokepoints Reborn: From Suez and Malacca to a Melting Arctic
At dawn on October 29, 1956, Egyptian forces detonated explosives along the banks of the Suez Canal. The blast reverberated…
Echoes of the Great Game in the Arctic’s New Cold War
In the nineteenth century, British and Russian envoys maneuvered across the mountains and deserts of Central Asia in a high-stakes…
The Ghosts of Suez: What 1956 Can Teach Us About the Next Global Shipping Crisis
On an October morning in 1956, British paratroopers dropped over Egypt’s Port Said, their boots sinking into sand that had…
The Balkan Playbook: Lessons the World Ignored in Ukraine
By Marcus Havelock In the winter of 1992, I stood on a bridge in Mostar, notebook in one hand, frost…