Germany’s economic decline is no longer merely an economic story. It has become a political one. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has become the focal point of this broader crisis of governance and legitimacy. For decades, Germany was regarded as the economic engine of Europe and, alongside France, a principal political architect of the European Union. Today, […]

The escalation of the conflict between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition has caused a multidimensional crisis that has a significant impact on Indonesia, requiring it to develop a maritime defense strategy that is in line with international law and ensures national resilience. Tensions peaked when Iran officially closed the Strait of Hormuz on March 1, […]

Post-2022 geopolitical developments and escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf have significantly strained relations between Iran and France, raising questions about the future of diplomatic engagement between the two countries. After the June 2025 military strike against Iran, France did not condemn it, and the subsequent triggering of the snapback mechanism caused relations between the […]

The emerging Eurasian era reflects not the collapse of the Western system but a gradual redistribution of global power toward a more complex multipolar order. For much of the post-Cold War era, the dominant assumption within the Atlantic world was that history had entered a permanent phase. Liberal globalization, maritime financial dominance, and Western institutional […]

The Middle East is not being remade; it is being contested widely and publicly. The emerging alignment between Israel and the United Arab Emirates appears, at first glance, to signal a decisive geopolitical shift. Yet beneath the optics of normalization and wartime cooperation lies a more complex struggle: not over whether the region will change, […]

The United Arab Emirates’ decision to leave OPEC has sparked intense debate about the future of the global oil market and the stability of collective production management. What would an expert tell me in layman’s language, particularly about who or what really stands behind this decision? Reports of the UAE leaving OPEC are often portrayed […]

Amidst growing global disorder and a lack of central power, the Kazan Forum’s increasing significance reflects the rise of Russia’s diplomatic outreach. Kazan Forum as an Emerging Eurasian Interface The Kazan Forum has emerged as a reconfiguration of economic imagination, connectivity, and power across the Eurasian region. The XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-Islamic World: Kazan […]

The development of Afghanistan’s mineral resources has become the center of an information and geopolitical struggle where economic projects intersect with security issues, propaganda, and great-power rivalry. A recent article published by the US arms-industry, big-tech, banking, and other Western special interests-funded Lowy Institute’s “Interpreter,” boldly claims, “Afghanistan is surrendering its mineral wealth — and its […]