Jul 21, 20263 min
Africa's Nonalignment, Version Two
A new generation of African states is reviving an old instinct — refusing to be anyone's theatre — and updating it for a multipolar economy.
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#Middle Powers
Every dispatch filed under Middle Powers.
Jul 17, 20264 min
Middle-Power Diplomacy in an Age of Great-Power Rivalry
The states caught between giants are not passive. Their hedging is a strategy in its own right — and it may shape the century as much as the giants do.
Jul 15, 20264 min
The Indo-Pacific and the Art of Deterrence Without Encirclement
Managing competition in Asia requires the hardest thing in statecraft: firmness that does not foreclose accommodation.
GeopoliticsJul 12, 20264 min
The Return of Spheres of Influence
The vocabulary of spheres of influence never really left international politics. It is returning to the surface — and with it, hard questions about sovereignty and consent.