Recognition by Exclusion: The Taipei–Hargeisa Axis and the Invention of a Sovereignty Without Title
Mali: Sovereignty in Spare Parts
Belgium's Conditional Passport: Antisemitism by Omission at the Consular Counter
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
As Israeli-Iranian tensions escalated in 2025, the Islamic Republic’s state media reprised a familiar sequence: broadcasting statements from representatives of Iran’s Jewish community condemning “Zionist aggression.” […]
Berbera, Where Geography Precedes Diplomacy
In the Horn of Africa, strategic shifts and major geopolitical reconfigurations rarely announce themselves with the clarity of formal declarations; they first make themselves legible in […]
Belgium the Docile – Act II: Liège’s Blind Spot
On the Belgian State’s Structural Relapse in the Face of Antisemitism In the night of 8 to 9 March 2026, shortly before four in the morning, […]
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 […]
