Beneath the Well: Sovereignty, Water, Power, and Survival in Somaliland
Africa at a distance: hierarchies of lives, hierarchies of crises
Iran's Jews: Tehran's Useful Hostages
Berbera, Where Geography Precedes Diplomacy
Belgium the Docile - Act II: Liège's Blind Spot
The Venezuela Model and Its Iranian Misapplication
The Trump administration’s reported interest in applying a “Venezuela model” to Iran — premised on elite defection, negotiated transition, and rapid leadership substitution — reflects a […]
The Shattered Chessboard
Anatomy of an Attempted Strategic Decapitation of the Mollarchy What opened this morning is not a mere sequence of strikes: it is a rupture experiment—an operation […]
Taliban Slavery and the West’s Suicidal Empathy with Jolani
From Kabul’s Chains to Damascus’ Smile In January 2026, while European diplomats were negotiating deportation agreements in Kabul, the regime they were negotiating with published a […]
Europe Always Arrives Too Late
Autopsy of a Moral Failure The European Union’s designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization on January 29, 2026, constitutes less […]
A War Europe Pretended Not to See
How Rojava became Europe’s unofficial prison Syrian government forces, moving under Turkish pressure and amid de facto coordination on the ground, have attacked Kurdish-led SDF positions […]
The Reactor and the Algorithm
How America and Israel Are Building the Infrastructure of the Future In December 1960, when American U-2 surveillance planes first photographed the construction site in the […]
Somaliland, Israel, and the Abraham Accords
Converting De Facto Statehood into Durable Regional Architecture in the Horn of Africa If Somaliland formally joins the Abraham Accords, the Horn of Africa will not […]
The Jihadist State Template: From Mali to Syria—and Why Rojava Must Survive
International Complicity in the Co-Production of Jihadist Sovereignty This article discusses the emergence of a novel political formation: the Terrorist State model. Moving beyond conventional framings […]
