From Donor to Partner: The Evolving Strategic Relationship Between Europe and Africa
Since 2020, the African continent has absorbed four overlapping shocks. These shocks include the Covid-19 crisis, a Ukraine and now Iran-driven inflation spike accompanied by risk of commodity supply shortages, a prolonged era of high interest rates, and the decrease, if not withdrawal, of vital development aid programs. At the same time, Africa is contending […]
Contested Thalassocracy: The Geoeconomics of Shipping and Maritime Connectivity
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto—Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Combined Fleet from 1939 to 1943—was not a strategic intellectual whose views were taken lightly in the Empire of the Rising Sun. Having studied at Harvard University and served as Japan’s naval attaché in Washington D.C., Yamamoto possessed a clear grasp of the capability gap between the United […]
Sustainability for the “Decade of Action”
Those of us who have worked on sustainability issues for some time have witnessed varying levels of engagement among different audiences. Until a few years ago, many—both in academia and in business—were rather skeptical, if not openly resistant, to the topic. More recently, however, there has been a gradual shift, with greater acceptance and, in […]
An Architect for a Crumbling World: Can BRICS Build a New World Order?
Today the international system, and globalization as its defining feature, lies in ruins—and is unlikely to recover from a series of recurrent shocks. Before speaking of sustainability and resilience, we must first ask whether the foundations exist on which either can be built. The old edifice has not been cleanly demolished: the Yalta-Potsdam order is […]
Diplomacy and Statecraft in an Era of Multipolar Chaos
Caribbean diplomacy must evolve from reactive alignment to anticipatory design, leveraging multi-vector diplomacy and regional convergence to assert strategic autonomy in a delicate balance between statecraft and diplomacy. This is the new reality that the Caribbean region now confronts. In a previous contribution to Horizons: Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development, written alongside Mikhail […]
Israel as Super-Sparta? Historical Analogies and the Politics of Delusion
In September 2025, at a Finance Ministry conference in Jerusalem, Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel was entering a period of diplomatic and economic isolation, and needed to become what he called a “Super-Sparta.” By this time, much of the international community had already turned against Israel due to its actions in Gaza and elsewhere, even […]
Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: The Struggle for the Future of the Global Order
Connectivity has become the defining condition of the twenty-first century. From digital networks and energy corridors to maritime routes, financial systems, and supply chains, the world is more densely interlinked than at any prior moment in history. Simultaneously, sustainability has emerged as the paramount challenge of our era. Climate change, resource depletion, demographic pressures, and […]
High Representative and Low FDI: Foreign Authority as the Cause of Bosnia’s Economic Paralysis
In January 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from 66 international organizations, among them the Regional Cooperation Council for Southeastern Europe. The signal was clear: Washington would no longer extend unconditional support to multilateral bodies that failed to demonstrate results. Weeks later, in early February, Milorad Dodik—the political […]