Smart Power in Practice: Statecraft Strategy for a Multipolar World
Introduction The concept of smart power, first articulated by Joseph Nye in the early 2000s, has become a foundational framework for understanding how states na...
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The ICC and Human Rights: Promise vs. Practice
Imagine a world where perpetrators of repeated human rights abuses can escape justice and sabotage the efforts of those who seek to hold them accountable. This ...
Fragile Peace: Nuclear Military Posturing in South Asia
The skies roared overhead as two Mi-17V5 helicopters cut through the air at the Independence Day Parades in New Delhi, one bearing the Indian tricolor, the othe...
Where Empire and Market Meet: The Hidden Cost of Geopolitics on India’s Artisans
In the once-packed streets of Surat, Gujarat, the dissonance of polishing machines and voices has lulled to a halt. A sign of life in the streets of the diamond...
Post-Castro, No Reform: Crafting a U.S. Strategy to Advance Cuban Freedom
When the United States loses sight of its foreign policy goals, decisions that affect millions of people often devolve into emblematic gestures and political th...
From Loss to Leverage: How Displacement Could Build Ukraine’s Post-War Reformist Elite
Since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has dominated contemporary strategic and war studies. Its territory has been mapped in detail, military oper...
El Salvador’s Bitcoin Gamble: Lessons for a Digitally Financial Future
This summer, the United States made history. On July 18, Congress signed into law the GENIUS Act, the first major crypto legislation in the nation. What makes t...
Media Diplomacy: How Public Communication Shapes Modern Conflict
In a Kyiv bomb shelter, a wartime president addresses his people via a smartphone. In London, thousands march with foreign flags, chanting in solidarity with a ...
Data Colonialism in the Global South: Who Owns Asia’s Digital Future?
Think of a world where each click, each message you send, and each transaction you make creates a value, but not for you, or even for your own country. Rather, ...
Ancient Greek Heritage Diplomacy as a Means of Soft Power
Introduction In an era marked by shifting geopolitical paradigms and the proliferation of non-traditional instruments of statecraft, culture has reemerged as a ...