A new trade deal with the United States demonstrates how Indonesia’s nickel sector is no longer merely an industrial policy instrument – it is a geopolitical lever.

China’s clean-energy exports are dominating in the Global South, such that it is now being called an ‘electrostate.’ But this economic success story is giving rise to new political dependencies that ...

A new antidumping duty targeting Russian palladium seeks to insulate US domestic capacity of a critical mineral that plays an ...

Israeli strikes on Iran: recent attacks on critical water and energy infrastructure, evidence of Iran’s ‘mosaic defense’ in ...

Short-term, the policy of arming and supporting ethnic proxies could hasten the demise of the Islamic regime in Iran. But the ...

Putin Russia. It will either remain a feral, aggressive, isolated Empire, or it will fall apart with a deafening crash. A transitional, cozy European alternative for this territory simply does not ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has moved from contingency planning into operational reality, unleashing cascading effects across a swathe of commodities markets.

Like early hopes of people power standing in for boots on the ground, war by proxy is a beguiling idea: it’s hands off, ...

As a phenomenon whose behavior is driven by long-range impersonal forces rather than whimsical vicissitudes, the evolution of organized crime in Mexico has proved to be quite dynamic and ductile. The ...

President Trump has signaled a willingness to expand the Iran war, declaring that it could last four weeks or ‘far longer,’ and alluding to possible boots on the ground. Such statements are the kind ...