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April 2025 Three years after the war in Ukraine completely changed the European calculations and two years after the EU attempted to run the most ambitious energy motor in its history, I see the continent still wandering to and forth the Green Deal and the reality of persistent energy dependence, and thus, I attempt to […]

April 2025 In the post-Ukrainian geopolitics and energy relocation of power in the wider Euro-Asian region, the Balkans are increasingly often escaping the old binary division between the East and the West. Today, it stands as a bridge between new security paradigms and alternative energy flows entering Europe from the Caspian Sea region. In this

April 2025 In the mid-twenty-first century, the global financial system is entering the phase of accelerated transformation. Traditional models of monetary power are growing weaker. The digital currencies are overtaking the role of new channels of the encryption of power. The old mechanisms of dollarized order are becoming slow in relation to the infrastructure in

April 2025 In the last decade, the digital infrastructure has become a central resource of global power. Its logic resembles former energy corridors, but nowadays, signal, and not oil, defines who runs the space. In the environment in which data functions as a primary material, cables, data centers and telecommunication networks are becoming the points

April 2025 At the beginning of the 2020s, Africa became the central battlefield of the new fight for energy resources. While the world is entering a new phase of transition to “Green” economies, the African continent, rich in lithium, cobalt, copper, and gold, is gaining significance not felt since colonialism and the post-colonial scramble. However,

April 2025 Looking from the perspective of the beginning of 2025, three countries of Western and Eastern Africa – Mali, Guinea, and the Sudan – nowadays represent a classical paradigm of what contemporary analysts are calling the “post-chaotic states”: political systems that function without full Statehood, but still manage to survive in the conditions of

April 2025 Years after the “Islamic State” (IS) had lost its last stronghold in Baghouz (in March 2019), its symbols, tactics, and organizational cells are once again resurrecting in the southern, central, and eastern Syria. And while the world’s attention is redirected towards the war in Ukraine and the new configuration of power in Eurasia,

March 2025 By the beginning of 2025, Turkey will be entering the phase in which it is simultaneously getting weaker and stronger, since its geopolitical paradox functions both as a source of power and vulnerability, depending on the side from which you look at it. The Northern horizon is closed off by the war in

March 2025 Since the beginning of the winter of 2024/2025, the energy system of Ukraine found itself under a renewed, coordinated Russian strikes, but this time, Moscow is changing its tactic and shifting towards the “endless winter”, which implies continued and geographically dispersed attacks that put pressure on the energy network; regarding this, it is

March 2025 Arctic, once the periphery of global politics and a symbol of untouched nature, nowadays represents one of the key hotspots of the new geopolitical competition. As the ice sheet melts, not only resources, but also the new paths of power are uncovered. The climate crisis, in this context, functions as a catalyst of