Leon Hadar
Trump’s economic promises meet political reality
The 2026 midterm elections loom as a potential disaster
Canada’s China gambit: Navigating a new geopolitical triangle
The trade deal between Ottawa and Beijing offers an early test of whether middle powers can chart their own course in an...
The Greenland crisis is a warning for East Asia
Implications of Trump’s Atlantic ambitions extend towards the Pacific
Why the US ‘rescue’ of Iran could backfire
The Trump administration risks strengthening the regime it seeks to unseat
Is Trump’s embrace of great power politics tenable?
While the liberal international order has clear flaws, the alternative carries significant risks to smaller nations’ autonomy and long-term global stability
US-China rivalry in Latin America: a race for influence
The region’s challenge lies in extracting value from both powers while avoiding the pitfalls of excessive dependence on either
Venezuelan crude: The prize beneath the chaos
As Trump pivots from hunting narcoterrorists to promising oil profits, the fate of the broken Latin American nation is being rewritten
Trump’s Venezuela operation: a dangerous precedent
His administration’s approach echoes past interventions that began with confidence and ended in quagmires
The American affordability crisis: Competing diagnoses, divergent remedies
Finding workable solutions will require moving beyond ideological commitments to evidence-based evaluation
2025: The year AI came of age – and the questions ahead for 2026
The technology has moved from boardroom curiosity to balance sheet necessity