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The Continuing U.S. Regime-Change Toolkit: Color Revolutions, Political Influence, and Vietnam

Introduction The history of U.S. foreign policy includes repeated efforts to influence or change the political direction of foreign states. These efforts have taken different forms: covert political intervention, financial and organizational support, economic pressure, diplomatic coercion, democracy assistance, civil-society engagement, intelligence operations, and military force. The central question is therefore not whether the United…

The Caspian: The Fourth Front – Iran’s war went global before anyone declared it

On Sunday, 26 July 2026, Abbas Araghchi made a statement that read less like a protest than a strategic admission. Responding to a Ukrainian drone strike on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea, Iran’s foreign minister declared that the attack would not go unanswered, called it a breach of the UN Charter, and accused…

US-China AI Talks Cannot Conceal A Technology World Splitting In Two

Dialogue can reduce the risk of miscalculation, but Washington and Beijing are building rival AI ecosystems that will increasingly force other countries to make practical choices. President Donald Trump recently distilled the strategic pressure shaping the artificial-intelligence contest into four words: “Whoever wins AI, wins.” His dismissal of warnings about potentially catastrophic AI risks exposes…

Between Washington and Beijing: Can Europe Build Strategic Autonomy Without Neutrality?

The strategic rivalry between the United States and China is reshaping the post-Cold War international order, with consequences for trade, technology, finance and security. Europe is deeply affected by this competition, but it does not constitute a third equivalent power. The European Union is an economic and regulatory heavyweight, yet it remains less politically and…

Little Boys Playing Dangerous Games & What Can Be Done About It

State of the world: many not-so-beautiful games The FIFA World Cup ended on 19 July with an apotheosis of the Spanish national team and a resounding boo for US President Trump. Whether one agrees or not with the appropriateness of these facts, there is a broader sense of a world caught up in an endless…

Make Things Happen; Don’t Wonder What Happened

In my long (40 years), undistinguished career in marketing communications and journalism, I have had a chance to work with some very good and some not very good bosses. However, there was one in particular, who had common sense without being too common. He taught me a valuable lesson. In describing success, he said, “There…

Qatar, Hamas and Netanyahu’s Double Game: Mediator or Accomplice?

Reza Talebi
World , Middle East , Politics , Analysis
12 January, 2026

Qatar is a tiny state with a population of around three million, in which foreign nationals make up approximately 76 percent of the population, while migrant workers account for nearly 90 percent of the labour force. And yet it plays an outsized role in global and regional politics, ranging from major investments in Africa and…

Episode 14 – The age of democratic decline | Stefanos Loukopoulos

The end of the second world war ushered in a new era of change for humanity. Having tested out all of their new, shiny weapons on each other, the nation-states of Europe decided to tone things down for a while and to focus on rebuilding their war-ravaged continent. A key factor for the success of…

Episode 11 – Dissecting the Alt-Right Movement | Part 2

Part 2 of our talk with Ipsita Chatterjee, a human geographer interested in the economic, cultural, and geopolitical impacts of globalization. Ipsita is also a prolific author, and her latest book “The Alt-Right Movement: Dissecting Racism, Patriarchy, and Anti-immigrant Xenophobia” served as the basis of our discussion. To help me better understand this phenomenon, she took…

Geopolitics and ‘Rough Wooing’

The attack on Ukraine has had tragic consequences for all Ukrainians and many Russians. The horror of families being killed and divided is a spectacle that nearly all Europeans believed had been banished forever from our Continent. Even most of the attacking troops and the Ukrainian population refused to believe it might happen. But the…