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.
Existential Battles: Culture Wars and Real Wars
Since political violence, in particular war, is a quintessential instrument of colonialism, the praeter-colonial mind would be remiss not to inquire into its nature and changing character.
Trilateral Lessons from the 1980s for Today’s Indo-Pacific Challenges
The yardstick of success is an alliance structure between the US, Japan, and South Korea that functions even when friendship falters.
Opinion – Changing Frontiers of Sino-US Technological Competition
The future contest will not only centre on who can build the most powerful chips, but on who can set the rules governing their use and exchange.
The Reluctant Empire: The United States and America
America, the continent, has always been a place to welcome those who decided that staying put was not going to cut it.
Review – Underground Empire
Farrell and Newman show how U.S. control of global infrastructure became a source of power and how its overuse now threatens the very system it built.
Opinion – The US-China Tech Hegemony Contest: A Threat to the Neoliberal World Order
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
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
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
The appeal of polarity lies in its simplicity, but it no longer reflects the architecture of global politics.
