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Soft Power as Dominion: Speaking Softly, Building Systems

February 20, 2026

EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·WORLD NEWS

The most durable power is not enforced at gunpoint; it is embedded in systems. My industry has a simple rule: never do

The Currency War Nobody Wants to Name

February 7, 2026

ECONOMICS·Featured·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·Politics·SECURITY·WORLD NEWS

Venezuela did not become problematic because it was authoritarian, corrupt, or illegitimate. It had been all three for years without provoking decisive

Vae Victis: Putin Wins

February 2, 2026

EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·SECURITY·WORLD NEWS

A frozen conflict would be a Russian victory in anything but name. Why a frozen conflict in Ukraine would amount to a

The Reassurance Trap

January 24, 2026

EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·NATIONAL SECURITY·News·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·WORLD NEWS

The Reassurance Trap: When Realism Is Rendered Consequence-Free With Trump’s appearance at Davos, the world on edge, and the frontlines unstable, reassurance

Europe’s Liberal Self-Deception

January 18, 2026

EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·SECURITY·WORLD NEWS

Order was once built; its absence is now assumed. Europe is not undergoing an ideological shift, but an analytical collapse. Great powers

Weaponisation of the Suffering – Frozen Conflicts, Displacement, and the Utility of Human Movement

December 28, 2025

EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·Immigration·MENA·Opinion | Analysis·Refugees·WORLD NEWS

Human suffering scales efficiently when it is managed. The weaponisation of refugees is a low-cost, high-leverage instrument for states able to tolerate

Europe must decide whether it intends to remain a consumer of security or finally become its producer

December 13, 2025

EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·News·Opinion | Analysis·RUSSIA·WORLD NEWS

The Russia-Ukraine conflict endures not because it is strategically complex, but because it is strategically convenient. But the truth beneath the rhetoric

Celebrating the First Republic of Armenia with a True Sense of Dignity, Victory and Pride

June 9, 2022

FOREIGN POLICY·FSU·News·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·WORLD NEWS

OPINION: Can today’s Republic of Armenia claim it is independent, sovereign and democratic and celebrate the May 28, 1918 day of victory

The Dodik Problem – Civil War in the Balkans Looms Large

November 17, 2021

EUROPE·FOREIGN POLICY·FSU·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·News·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·RUSSIA·RUSSIA | FSU·WORLD NEWS

As the U.S. and E.U. remain asleep at the wheel, the Balkans face what could be another Serb, Bosnian, Croat civil war,

Can the U.S. Counter China’s Growing Soft and Sharp Power Influence Through Sanctions?

October 20, 2021

ASIA·Business·ECONOMICS·Featured·FOREIGN POLICY·Headlines·NATIONAL SECURITY·WORLD NEWS

Economic sanctions have long been the preferred foreign policy tool to outright aggression. Rising tensions with a developing China have forced many

American Insurgency – What Does a Peaceful Transition of Power Look Like Now?

January 17, 2021

AMERICAS·Headlines·LAW & INSTITUTIONS·NATIONAL SECURITY·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·Politics·U.S. | WASHINGTON D.C.·WORLD NEWS

America is supposed to be the world’s exporter of democracy, a profile in and of the peaceful transition of power for our

As Trump’s hold on power fades domestic hybrid warfare rages on

December 10, 2020

Headlines·LAW & INSTITUTIONS·Op-Ed·Opinion | Analysis·Politics·WORLD NEWS

Behind the scenes of a Trump power grab, America remains engaged in its own, internal, political hybrid warfare.

Surviving epidemics, pandemics, bioterrorism and COVID-19 – Are you prepared?

March 4, 2020

AMERICAS·ASIA·HEALTH·WORLD NEWS

Crisis consulting firm MOSAIC is tackling the COVID-19 coronavirus through the lens of security and intelligence crisis management by releasing the guide