The Arctic is increasingly becoming a laboratory for the interaction between sanctions, energy security, maritime logistics and great-power competition. One of the clearest examples is the emerging China-Russia Arctic LNG relationship. Western sanctions have sharply constrained Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project by limiting access to finance, technology, insurance, shipping services and conventional buyers. Yet the project has not simply disappeared from the global energy system.
In recent years, the Arctic has become a central arena not only in the context of climate change, melting sea ice, and new maritime routes, but also in terms of energy geopolitics and great-power competition. One of the most striking examples of this transformation is China-Russia
On 20 February 2026, on the sidelines of its own AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India signed the Pax Silica Declaration. The gesture was quietly remarkable. The country that gave the twentieth century the doctrine of non-alignment had put its name to a twenty-first-century pact whose entire purpose is to make equidistance impossible.
Semiconductors (and computer chips) are essential for many electronics, development of the Information and Technology (IT) industry as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Electric Vehicles (EV) and Drones. Maintaining a stable chip design and manufacturing capacity is essential to address potential vulnerabilities. For countries seeking to maintain strategic and geopolitical relevance as well as national technological sovereignty.
South Korea’s preparations to conduct its first container trial voyage via Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2026 mark a new phase in discussions about the future of the Arctic. The Seoul government plans to send a container ship with a capacity of approximately 3,000 TEU from Busan to Rotterdam via the Arctic and has selected Panstar Line as the lead operator for this purpose.
The implementation of comprehensive structural reforms in complex post-conflict societies, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), is systematically impeded by chronic political stalemates and the historical failure of rigid, "all-or-nothing" statebuilding paradigms.
When silence fell over the Strait of Hormuz and Washington and Tehran reached an uneasy ceasefire in April 2026, India wasted little time. India's Foreign Minister was in Abu Dhabi reviewing the strategic partnership with the United Arab Emirates. Medical shipments to Iran had been dispatched.
I selected 1000 ancient, basic words, including the 207−word Swadesh list. I found a 38.3% degree of commonality between Turkish and Russian. When only the words in the Swadesh list are taken as the basis, the rate of commonality rises to 45.4%. I identified and recorded close and striking similarities in grammar as well. These very clearly prove that there has been a connection between Russian and Turkish dating back thousands of years.
If NATO were to disintegrate, the first thing to be lost would not be a building, a logo, or the headquarters in Brussels. The first thing to be lost would be the sense of automaticity.
Today, the emergence of such a law on the national agenda is a belated yet strategically extremely important step. Because the issue is no longer merely a matter of the law of the sea.
Iraq represents an exceptional case in the Middle East, combining the elements of stability and non-stability at the same time, as a result of the overlap of a complex structural trilogy of economic resources, ethnic diversity, and a sensitive geostrategic location. This unique interplay makes Iraq more vulnerable than other countries to ongoing internal turmoil and multifaceted external interventions.
Iraq represents an exceptional case in the Middle East, combining the elements of stability and non-stability at the same time, as a result of the overlap of a complex structural trilogy of economic resources, ethnic diversity, and a sensitive geostrategic location. This unique interplay makes Iraq more vulnerable than other countries to ongoing internal turmoil and multifaceted external interventions.
The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence into the operational frameworks of non-state actors represents a paradigm shift in asymmetric warfare. Currently, standard counter-terrorism constructions often rely on the static matching of keywords and legacy Natural Language Processing (NLP) models, which are inadequate for detecting digitally fragmented, hyper-localised extremist propaganda.
The tension between normative values and strategic interests has always been an interesting feature of international relations. Yet in recent years, this tension has become visible, shaped by great power competition, energy transitions, and the accelerating race for technological dominance. Against this backdrop, the recent normalization of relations between India and Canada offers a compelling case of how pragmatism is increasingly prevailing over principle in global diplomacy.
After more than two decades from the birth of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and later of the Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), its instrumental hand, and more than 28 CSDP missions enacting a variety of the Petersberg tasks (which somehow arbitrarily delimitate the scope of permissible crisis management actions), the European Union (EU) seems to have exhausted the high ambitions inserted in the Lisbon Treaty of becoming a world actor capable of a true external action.
While global attention remains focused on the wars in Ukraine and the escalating confrontation involving Iran in the Middle East, another strategic issue is quietly intensifying in the background: the fragility of global semiconductor supply chains.
At a time when international law has effectively ceased to exist, when the laws of war have disappeared, when the United Nations has been rendered practically defunct, and when immoral bandits can start major wars with the most shameless rhetoric—openly targeting and killing civilians and children—it is precisely the moment to republish an old article. So that we may better understand what the human being is, and what “civilization” is.
Water security in the Middle East has transcended its traditional boundaries as a sectoral infrastructure concern. Today, it represents a complex governance and security challenge shaped by the converging pressures of climate change, demographic shifts, rapid urbanisation, and geopolitical fragmentation. Understanding and addressing this challenge requires moving beyond siloed approaches to embrace the integrated perspective offered by the Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus framework.
Water security in the Middle East has transcended its traditional boundaries as a sectoral infrastructure concern. Today, it represents a complex governance and security challenge shaped by the converging pressures of climate change, demographic shifts, rapid urbanisation, and geopolitical fragmentation. Understanding and addressing this challenge requires moving beyond siloed approaches to embrace the integrated perspective offered by the Water–Energy–Food (WEF) Nexus framework.
In February 2026, India’s space agency accelerated plans for its own national space station while simultaneously progressing a remarkable pipeline of nearly 80 satellites spanning Earth observation, navigation, disaster management, scientific research, and data relay for its human spaceflight agenda.
It is February 2026, and four years have passed since the war between Ukraine and Russia began in 2022. I would have preferred to write that Europe’s period under the shadow of war is coming to an end; however, what exists instead is a fragile and feeble negotiation process. There is not even a publicly announced framework for a peace plan. As time passes, the humanitarian, economic, and geopolitical costs created by the war in Ukraine continue to grow.
Until the early 20th century, global scholarship largely accepted that the roots of European languages lay in the Turkic or Turanian language family, in short, in Turkish. At the very least, the vast majority of scholars recognized and wrote about the deep Turkic influence in European languages going back thousands of years.
Between the sixth and tenth centuries, the Khazar Turkic Khaganate ruled over a vast territory in Eastern Europe and emerged as a great and powerful state that left a deep imprint on world history. It constituted the origin of the first Rus’ polity and of several other states. The roots of the Ashkenazi Jews—and indeed of all Jews of Eastern and Northern Europe—lie in Khazar Turkic society.
Despite tariff shocks, supply-chain fragmentation, and geopolitical uncertainty, India enters 2026 as
an “anchor economy” of the Global South—combining steady growth forecasts with a widening
industrial base in electronics, a more innovation-centered FDI narrative, and an accelerating AI and
green-energy agenda.
_png_2026_26_6_00bdf203-2f72-4ff5-aba7-e754354a2fe9.png "Non-Alignment in the Age of Silicon: India, Pax Silica, and the Limits of Equidistance")
_jpeg_2025_22_12_b3702079-4965-4132-8c28-6f30c62c1513.jpeg "Defense, Security, and Intelligence Revolution: Technopolitics and Demopolitics")
