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Latest posts
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Building in the Rupture: The World’s New Alignments
Read the full essay HERE. I contribute an essay in this volume outlining the global trends that we should be looking out for. My chapter takes a hard look at how the Trump administration has triggered major realignments in the international order and in how partnerships are “traditionally” understood. “American First”, in essence, signals something…
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Force Without Freedom: The Long Game in the Strait
Read the full article HERE. I dissect, in this piece for ORF Middle East, what Washington’s Project Freedom, an operation designed to “guide” stranded vessels out of the waterway closed by Iran, means when it only survived a one-day arc. Despite Washington’s naval blockade, Tehran’s low-cost asymmetric arsenal is sufficient to sustain maximum disruption for…
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A Switch, Not a Signal: Interpreting Iran’s 18-Hour Strait Opening
Read the full article HERE. Inspired by conversations with personnel from the shipping sector, I write this piece for ORF Middle East examining how Iran’s brief reopening (for 18 hours) of the Strait of Hormuz on a Friday evening was timed to exploit global shipping’s dependence on business hours, ensuring no real movement could occur.…
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