Key Takeaways Recent attacks on regional states by Iran’s proxies and partners enable Iran to maintain plausible deniability while continuing to advance its objective of coercing the United States to end the war in terms favorable to Iran, which include accepting Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia …

While it no longer enjoys primacy in Damascus, the Kremlin has proven itself able to adapt to the new reality, and Washington must play the long game in response. Today, Syria is a fundamentally different country from the one where Moscow intervened in September 2015 to preserve the rule of …

For over a century, the Western civil service model was hailed as the gold standard of modern governance. Today, especially in the US, we are witnessing loyalty replace merit and brazen corruption go unchecked. Drawing on China’s 2,000 years of bureaucratic history, Professor Fan Yongpeng argues that the system was …

What began as a joint U.S.-Israeli operation against Iran had, by mid-2026, morphed into a tectonic shift in the entire Middle East security architecture. The Islamabad Pause, Not PeaceOn July 12, 2026, the world learned of the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the United States and Iran. The document should …

Since 1945, American foreign policy has obeyed a systemic invariant: maintaining the world in a state of structural vassalage. This Pax Americana, which is nothing more than a myth shrouded in economic violence and military coercion, is crumbling. Indeed, the collapse of American hegemony is no longer a hypothesis. It …

The US–Saudi nuclear deal risks prioritizing Washington’s strategic influence and commercial interests over strict non-proliferation safeguards, potentially creating a latent Saudi nuclear capability and triggering a wider regional arms race. The genie must not be let out of the bottle. Introduction The US has finally provided a green signal to …

The nature of warfare is as old as human society; over the ages, it has been undergoing rapid changes. In the ongoing Iran-US-Israel war, Washington and Tel Aviv have been waging one of such evolved forms of warfare against Tehran. Warfare can be defined as acts of waging wars in …

Le 28 février 2026, en douze heures, l’aviation américaine et israélienne a frappé l’Iran près de neuf cents fois et tué son Guide suprême. En représailles, Téhéran a fermé le détroit d’Ormuz. Ce que le monde a découvert dans les semaines qui ont suivi n’est pas seulement l’histoire d’une guerre …

Il arrive dans l’histoire qu’un système paraisse si parfait qu’il devienne difficile d’en imaginer la fin. À l’époque où la Grande-Bretagne «dominait les mers», on pensait dans une grande partie du monde que la livre sterling n’était pas simplement une monnaie, mais le langage naturel du commerce lui-même. Depuis le …

In recent days, the province of Hasakah has moved to a new phase of the local movement, after a state of congestion that turned into tribal movements on the ground that raised political, service and security demands. These moves coincided with the continuation of the implementation of the January 29 …