Surveillance by Design — How Delhi Policed a Student Protest
Delhi’s use of facial recognition at student protests raises a troubling question: what remains of the freedom to assemble when attendance can become a lasting police record?
Op-Ed: Manufactured Borderlands: Mexico as an Extension of the U.S. Border
Sabine Caplin examines border externalization through Mexico and Türkiye, and its consequences for migrants, sovereignty, and host communities.
Analysis: Russia’s Alternative Framework for Conflict Management in Africa’s Sahel
As Russia expands its security partnerships in the Sahel, Shushan Grigoryan examines how Moscow’s approach differs from France’s and what this shift means for sovereignty, regional security and European influence.
Analysis: The Regionalization of Political Order in The Horn of Africa
From strategic ports to corridors, political order in the Horn of Africa is being reorganized through networks of states, external powers and local actors that conventional theories struggle to capture.
Blood on the Algorithms: How Combat Footage Shapes the Propaganda of the Iran-US War
From polished US strike montages to Iran’s missile-and-drone videos, both sides are turning combat footage into evidence for competing claims of military dominance.
Below the Threshold: What the Baltic States Can Teach NATO About Countering Russia
While the West studies Ukraine’s war for lessons, the Baltic states have spent two decades learning how to counter Russia without one.
Op-Ed by Mani Nouri: From Rescue Mission to What, Exactly? Part II
Mr. Nouri argues that the “rescue mission” framing of the 2025 war on Iran was a deliberately capacious narrative serving several aims as Washington and Jerusalem pursued divergent objectives.
Op-Ed: Mani Nouri, PhD(c), discussed the popular uprising in Iran
It appears the Iran war was sold as a humanitarian liberation of the Iranian people, but has steadily collapsed into a transactional negotiation with the surviving regime.
Analysis with Patrick Green, MSc: Corruption and Coercion – Why Myanmar’s Civil War Persists
With Myanmar’s final election phase ending on January 26, 2026, this report argues that lasting stability depends less on the electoral process than on curbing the military’s corrupt revenue networks.
Analysis with Mani Nouri, PhD(c): No Going Back – Iran’s 2026 Revolutionary Uprising
In this article, Mani Nouri examines the unfolding unrest in Iran as a revolutionary moment rather than a conventional protest movement. He argues that the convergence of mass popular anger, regime overreach, and regional geopolitical setbacks has created the most profound challenge to the Islamic Republic in decades.