Opinion – How Latin America Can Navigate the US-China Trade War
While the longstanding effects of the Trump era trade war affect everyone, Latin American countries are vulnerable but not defenseless.
Opinion – The Mearsheimer Logic Underlying Trump’s National Security Strategy
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy has adopted Mearsheimer’s aims for US to achieve predominance in the West and prevent great powers to dominate other regions.
Opinion – Okinawa’s Struggle with Ongoing US Military Presence
National sentiment in Japan can diverge sharply over military instalments, and local resistance remains a source of uncertainty for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s plans.
Interview – Ankit Panda
Ankit Panda reflects on a new nuclear age marked by great-power rivalry, rising proliferation pressures, and fading arms control, urging realism about deterrence in a riskier world.
The Revolutionary New Dynamics of the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States
The NSS 2025 shares an unrealistic belief that simply being the world’s predominant in power will inevitably deliver positive outcomes for the United States.
Opinion – Alliance Shock Revisited: What 1968-69 Means for 2025
If Tokyo and Seoul fail to deepen strategic integration, they risk repeating the illusion that regional security can exclusively rely on a single external great power.
Interview – Jaehan Park
Jaehan Park reflects on how military service reshaped his worldview and inspired a career exploring geopolitics, East Asian security, and great-power rivalry.
Donald Trump: Reconfiguring Global Order
Behind what appears (and sometimes is) capricious Trump Administration decision making are policymakers with serious plans for the world.
Opinion – Anchored Autonomy: Europe’s Strategy for a Post-Complacent Age
Donald Trump’s transactional return and America’s accelerated pivot toward the Indo-Pacific have ended Europe’s post-Cold War strategic complacency.
America First, Humanity Second: Trump, MAGA, and American Imperialism Revisited
The most powerful country in the world is dismantling the order it helped create and rekindling old ideas about spheres of influence and regional imperialism.
