The Financial-Geopolitical Complex: When Balance Sheets Become Battlefields
byMoney, markets, and financial infrastructure have become powerful instruments of geopolitics. They subdue the world without firing a shot.
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The Freedom We Still Owe
byFreedom is yet to come — yet to come.
Innovation, Crony Capitalism And The Price Society Pays
byUnder the guise of innovation, crony capitalism has spread its tentacles and influencing all aspects of public life.
As AI Rapidly Proliferates, It Is Essential To Declare The Right To Think As A Fundamental Human Right
byThe rapid proliferation of AI is eliminating the need to think. Therefore, it is essential to protect the right to think by declaring it as a fundamental human right.
America’s Broken Promises: How Washington Lost The World’s Trust
byHow long can America endure a world that has learned not to trust it.
North Korea’s Nuclear Trajectory: Lessons From Previous Nuclear Powers
byNorth Korea may serve as an example of how a weak state can secure great-power support to complete a nuclear programme.
Why South Asian Art Is Going Global
byFor years, the international art world acknowledged South Asia while keeping it at the periphery. It is now becoming much harder to tell the story of global modernism without placing the region near its centre.
The Hidden Science Of Predicting Pandemics
byNew viruses are discovered every year, but only a tiny fraction threaten humanity. The challenge is identifying the dangerous few before they spread.
Microplastics & Gutbiome
byPlastic pollution has extended beyond landscapes and oceans into the human body. Understanding what that means may prove to be one of the defining scientific questions of the coming decade.
The Quad Trap: America’s Leash, India’s Illusion
byThe Quad is often portrayed as the crowning glory of US-India strategic partnership. It is also its most glaring vulnerability.
Dollar Hegemony, Economic Warfare & The Architecture Of Subjugation
byThe architecture of subjugation was built by human decisions. What humans have built, humans can change.
The New Geography Of Food
byClimate change is redrawing the map of global agriculture. Here’s how.
The AI Accountability Gap
byThe future of artificial intelligence will depend not only on what these systems can do but on how societies choose to govern them.
The Politics Of Humiliation & The New Global Disorder
byThe humiliations of the past continue to shape today’s geopolitics, hardening grievances into conflict.
War & Diplomacy
byPeace in the Middle East will not emerge from grand declarations or social-media bravado. It will come through negotiations between governments that distrust one another.