Geopolitics & Power
The world is not entering a new era of collapse or retreat. It is moving into a consolidation phase—where expansion gives way to constraint, rules catch up to scale, and choices quietly narrow.
Geopolitics & Power
The world no longer resets between crises. As 2025 closes, financial stress, climate disruption, energy volatility, and geopolitical tension arrive at once, turning instability from an event into a permanent condition.
Geopolitics & Power
Tariffs are back—and with them, a new kind of supply-chain fragility. As governments weaponize trade policy in the name of security, the global economy is reorganizing around blocs, dependencies, and deliberate risk.
Climate & Sustainability
COP30 promised urgency but proved how fragile climate unity has become. Adaptation money tripled, fossil language dodged, and power tilting south—all while the clock keeps counting down.
Geopolitics & Power
Part II of Europe’s global crossroads examines whether the Union can turn internal reconstruction into real geopolitical influence. As Europe expands, its credibility will hinge on sustained coherence ahead.
Geopolitics & Power
Europe’s old model—security from the U.S., supply chains from China, and cheap energy from Russia—has collapsed. Part I of this GYST series traces how the EU is rebuilding sovereignty in defense, energy, and tech, and what it must do next to become a true strategic actor.
Geopolitics & Power
BRICS is no longer just an acronym. With 11 members and nearly half the world’s population, it’s a serious gravitational field in global politics. But expansion also exposes deep internal rifts. The real question is whether more BRICS in the wall makes the bloc stronger, or the cracks wider.
Geopolitics & Power
Vietnam, Türkiye, the Netherlands – mid-sized nations are stepping up as global rule-writers. From trade pacts to AI standards to climate deals, these “small giants” are filling gaps left by superpowers, using cooperation and credibility as leverage in a fractured world.
Geopolitics & Power
The U.S.–China tariff truce is a pause, not peace. A swap of soybeans for tariff relief shows how little trust underpins today’s global trade. Quick deals replace lasting rules, revealing the limits of ad-hoc bargaining in managing a rivalry that still defines the world economy.
Geopolitics & Power
As APEC opens in Gyeongju, South Korea faces a test on two fronts: defending its trade treaty against U.S. pressure and showing that democracy can still hold its own in a world of power politics.
Geopolitics & Power
Globalization isn’t dying; it’s being rewired into regional systems. Here’s how blocs and corridors between Asia and Europe are building a new operating model—rules, routes, and finance that shift power through connectivity.
Energy & Resources
A single global grid could balance renewable power between continents — but sovereignty, security, and trust keep the world’s currents divided.