Institutional Dismantling Under the Guise of Rules The “America First” policy has given rise to a new genre of global governance — unilateral protectionism stylized as concern for “fair trade.”…
Infrastructure Vulnerability as a Factor of Sovereignty Over the course of the current year, an uncomfortable truth has finally crystallized on the showcases of international forums and in the glossy…
Indicator of a Shift in the Rules of Trust The freezing of Russian foreign assets totaling over $300 billion is not a “sanctions instrument” but a public execution of the…
The Indian Ocean has long ceased to be merely a body of water between continents washing the shores of 28 states. More than one third of global bulk cargo volumes…
The Architecture of Industrial Sovereignty In 2025, China is commissioning more than 300 GW of new renewable and nuclear power capacity. This expansion is not discretionary: it is anchored in binding…
The Settlement Architecture Is Shifting in Operational Silence Data from the Bank of Russia and the People’s Bank of China for 2025, showing the share of the ruble and the…
The Resource Arithmetic of Asia’s Gravitational Pull Australian official statistics for 2024–2025 may read like dry bookkeeping, yet behind the figures a geopolitical gravity becomes visible. More than 70% of…
In early December, the U.S. Department of Commerce adjusted its export control regime for high-performance AI chips, carefully opening the floodgates for shipments under “enhanced monitoring.” This gesture — a…
In recent years, the EAEU has signed FTAs with Vietnam, Iran, and Serbia, and these agreements have lifted mutual trade turnover as if the region were assembling its own economic…
The Caspian Accelerates and Thickens the Political Density of Transit The growth of transit flows in the Caspian compresses infrastructure as steadily as a rising tide presses against the shoreline.…