GEOPOLITICS REPORT
This analysis stems from a conviction that must be stated plainly: fire has ceased to be merely an environmental issue and has become a matter of national security, territorial economy, and European strategic positioning.
There is no longer freedom of the seas: there are tolls
The freedom of the seas is no longer a given: it’s a price to pay. Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb have ceased to be maritime passages and have become keys to energy, commercial, and political strangulation.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
There are days when the world map is better understood by looking at the water than at the land. Yesterday was one of them.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The day can be summarized in a single sentence, and it’s worth stating it bluntly because it’s the thread from which everything else hangs: on the same Wednesday that the United States bombed Iran for the twelfth consecutive night to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, it signed a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, accompanied by a bilateral safeguards agreement. Some may see a contradiction there.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
Today’s events confirm that the war in the Middle East and the war in Ukraine share a common symptom: the erosion of leadership.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
There are days when current events, capricious as they are, place two seemingly disparate news stories on the same table, yet they are linked by a common thread that the analyst has a duty to unravel.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The day has two temperatures and one lesson.
Hormuz: the persistent fever of a war at a variable temperature
The United States and Iran have turned the strait into the epicenter of a conflict of shifting intensity, with no possible victory, no lasting peace, and direct consequences for the global economy.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
The phrase that states have neither permanent friends nor enemies, only interests, has been repeated a thousand times.
GEOPOLITICS REPORT
Two stories, or rather three intertwined threads, have dominated the geopolitical landscape for the past forty-eight hours, and all three share, despite unfolding in geographically distant settings, a common denominator: the erosion of authority as an inevitable consequence of protracted war.