The New Geopolitics of the Straits The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz has brought the international system face to face with an old lesson that globalisation once appeared to have consigned to history: geography still matters. When a maritime…
Morocco has modernised, expanded its international influence and become a partner Spain increasingly needs. Yet part of Spanish public opinion continues to view the country through old prejudices, even as strategic reality makes its importance impossible to ignore. Two recent…
The Gibraltar fence separating the Rock from La Línea de la Concepción before its removal under the EU–UK agreement.
As Europe searches for clean energy, critical minerals and stability along its borders, one question returns to the centre of the debate: what place does Africa occupy in Europe’s future? Yet even that question preserves an old European habit: speaking…
Edgar Morin and the Importance of Complex Thinking
There are nights when the world seems to have surrendered. Cities remain illuminated, screens continue to glow, and millions of fingers slide endlessly across cold glass in search of something they no longer know how to name. Everything happens too…
For centuries, the relationship between Africa and the great powers has been defined by extraction. First came gold, ivory, and rubber; later oil, uranium, and cobalt. Today, a new strategic frontier is emerging: data. Among them, health data is rapidly…
Roblox and child safety in the context of digital regulation and age verification
An in-depth analysis of thalassocracy, maritime strategy, choke points, and the geopolitical rivalry shaping the global balance of power in the 21st century.
Europe has spent the past decade playing defense — more of a spectator than a protagonist on the global stage. It reacts to Washington, it reacts to Beijing, it reacts to Moscow. In doing so, it has slowly lost the…
