Opinion – Iran’s Increasing Use of Azerbaijanis for Covert Operations

Rufat Ahmadzada • Aug 11 2025 • Articles

The IRGC Quds force actively uses foreign nationals to conduct espionage and terror attacks, with a particular focus on the ethnic Azerbaijani regions of Georgia.

Queering Proportionality: The Impact of Trans Allyship on Palestinian Liberation

Gray Black • Aug 11 2025 • Articles

The transgender refusal to devalue the lives of those who have been taught to hate them due to personal, religious, or political prejudice is a flame we must stoke.

Circular Agroecology for a Resilient Europe

To achieve genuine strategic autonomy, the EU must build a resilient, sustainable, and equitable food system.

Balancing Costs and Fairness: The Loss of Focus on Social Values

Bruno S. Sergi • Aug 10 2025 • Articles

US tariffs and the EU’s integrationist competitiveness funds both view social spending as a consequence, rather than a contributing factor, to equitable and sustainable growth.

Opinion – Peace and Power Realignment in the South Caucasus

Ali Askerov • Aug 10 2025 • Articles

With support, the South Caucasus can emerge from Russia’s shadow and embrace a new era of cooperation, development, and regional ownership.

Trump’s ‘Gangster Diplomacy’: The Political Economy of US-Japan Tariffs

Masahiro Matsumura • Aug 10 2025 • Articles

Trump’s use of tariffs is framed as ideological warfare against globalism, making Japan – a liberal internationalist stronghold – a prime target.

(Re)Imagining Japan: Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Victimhood Nationalism

Giorgio Shani • Aug 9 2025 • Articles

By refusing to name the US as perpetrator yet affirming Japan’s status as victim, post-war LDP governments absolved the US of its responsibility.

Opinion – Trump’s Tariffs are the Incentive the BRICS Needed

Luis Gouveia Jr • Aug 8 2025 • Articles

Trump’s attempts to “punish” Brazil and India with tariffs may potentially distance them from the US, and perhaps even unite them.

Hegemonic Stability Theory: Trump’s Transactional Hegemony and the Cambodia-Thailand Border Dispute

Lak Chansok • Aug 8 2025 • Articles

Stability in Southeast Asia will depend on the rules-based structures that small states rely on for their sovereignty and security.

Opinion – Could the United Nations Solve the Gaza Quandary?

John Allphin Moore, Jr. and Jerry Pubantz • Aug 8 2025 • Articles

The UN’s peacekeeping efforts in Timor-Leste offer an example of how to break the static and bleak situation in Gaza.

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