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Strategic Priorities & International Security

Rich, Disarmed, Divided
Why a wealthy continent risks becoming the object others contend over
The Storm That Won't Pass
The comforting European belief that the American disengagement will pass with the Trump administration mistakes a fifteen-year structural reorientation…
The Client's Dilemma
Classical strategy, the middle-power turn, and Europe's case for autonomy
The Use of Force as Strategic Failure
What classical Chinese thought teaches about reading a conflict that leaves no battlefield
The Art of Dividing the Barbarians
China’s oldest strategic doctrine and its long duration
The Tariffing of Transit at Hormuz: Legal Aspects and Systemic Implications
A transit charge, cryptocurrency insurance, and sanctions countermeasures measured against the legal regime of international straits
From the Strategic Concept to Industrial Essentiality
How NATO 2022 redefines the companies the Alliance cannot afford to lose.
The Strait and the Hegemon
Is Hormuz to the present order what Messina was to Carthage and Singapore to Britain?
An Empire of the Straits, an Empire of the Shores
Why, to control the world’s maritime passages, London had to occupy the land around them — from Gibraltar to Egypt to Singapore
The Control of the Straits and the Naval Policy of the British Empire
A reading through the historiography and theory of maritime strategy
The Power to Close the Sea
Rome, Carthage, and the Strait at the Origin of Maritime Hegemony
Privatised Power: When Strategic Infrastructure Goes Public
The SpaceX listing prices a sovereign dependency. It is the leading edge of a structural shift: sectors that were ordinary private businesses a decade…
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