United States

Opinion – The US-China Tech Hegemony Contest: A Threat to the Neoliberal World Order

Muhammad Faizan Fakhar • Oct 16 2025 • Articles

US-China rivalry is rooted in divergent political and economic ideologies, giving rise to a persisting struggle playing out on a global scale.

Opinion – AI Nationalism and the Multipolar Future

Nicholas Morieson • Oct 7 2025 • Articles

The race for AI supremacy is about legitimacy, identity, and the authority to decide which values will be embedded in infrastructures that increasingly govern human life.

The Quantum Race: How Emerging Technologies Reshape Global Security Governance

Elena Zancanaro • Sep 29 2025 • Articles

The quantum race represents a profound challenge to global security governance but also a unique window for cooperative action.

Why Polarity Misleads: Toward a New Grammar of International Relations

Arthur Michelino • Sep 26 2025 • Articles

The appeal of polarity lies in its simplicity, but it no longer reflects the architecture of global politics.

Opinion – The West’s Role in Ukraine’s Lost Future

Ali Askerov • Sep 24 2025 • Articles

The war in Ukraine shows that the West has failed to present a decisive, unified, and sustainable strategy to defeat Russia or reshape the international order.

American Military Power and World Peace: A Strategic Paradox?

Tewfik Hamel • Aug 28 2025 • Articles

Reliance on military primacy as a tool of governance often undermines the very stability it seeks to guarantee.

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.

Strategic or Symbolic? Reassessing Hiroshima and Nagasaki Eighty Years On

Markus Schindler • Aug 6 2025 • Articles

Eighty years on, the available information suggest that the US leadership overestimated the strategic impact of the nuclear bombings on Japan.

US Bombing of Iran and the Transition to a New International Legal Order

Masahiro Matsumura • Jul 18 2025 • Articles

The choices made in response to the US action against Iran will determine whether power, not law, will define the contours of world politics in the 21st century.

Review – Turkey and the West

Pınar Buket Kılınç Pala • Jul 16 2025 • Features

Kirişci traces Turkey–West tensions through history with sharp analysis, though post-2020 shifts call for updates to address today’s more complex geopolitical landscape.

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