Breaking Ranks: The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the Unravelling of Gulf Consensus
As the UAE exits OPEC, long-simmering economic and strategic divergences with Saudi Arabia begin to reshape Gulf politics and energy markets
Economy Policy And Society
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The System Holds, Until It Doesn’t
From the Gulf to global markets, events appear to move toward rupture and then stop short. The reason lies not in restraint, but in the invisible architecture of the system itself.
The War in Iran: The Illusion of Decisive Force
One month in, the limits of conventional military power are being laid bare. As a “dual chokehold” on global energy flows emerges, the old security umbrella of the Gulf states is being dismantled. It is forcing a permanent re-pricing of both regional and global risk.
How Iran Is Turning the Global Economy Into a Battlefield
As the conflict with the United States and Israel intensifies, Iran’s new leadership is signalling a prolonged confrontation—one that combines conventional warfare with pressure on global energy flows and supply chains.
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
The US–Israel War on Iran: Energy, Power and Regional Disruption
Energy chokepoints, proxy escalation and great-power recalibration are reshaping the Gulf and unsettling the global order. Part I of a two-part series.
·Global Trade and Geoeconomics
Tariffs Are the Noise. Realignment Is the Signal
Even if Trump’s tariffs disappear, the forces reshaping global trade—geopolitics, security concerns and reconfigured regional blocs—are here to stay
·Global Trade and Geoeconomics
India’s Trade Deals and the New Meaning of Strategic Autonomy
What India’s agreements with the US and EU reveal about power, policy space, and calibrated accommodation
·Strategic Affairs & Geopolitics
America’s Iran Trap Is Closing
Carrier strike groups, nuclear deadlines and a brittle regime in Tehran are converging on a moment where Washington may discover that every move—strike, sabotage or restraint—ends in escalation
·Global Trade and Geoeconomics
Trade Is the New Geopolitics—and India Must Learn to Play It
Why India’s future power will be shaped less by diplomacy and more by trade architecture
·Development & State Capacity
Rivers, Bronzes and the Architecture of Ambition
What the Chola trail reveals about power, systems, memory, and coffee
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