The Risk Is Not Just an Energy Shock—but Also a Debt Crisis; A Shared Enemy, but Diverging Views of Its Motives and Character; Splitting Sudan Didn’t Work in the Past and Won’t Work Now
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Smoke rising after strikes on the Bapco Oil Refinery in Bahrain, March 2026 

How the Iran War Will Upend the Global Economy

The Risk Is Not Just an Energy Shock—but Also a Debt Crisis

By Henry Tugendhat

 

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Amid the rubble at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, April 2026 

America and Israel Have Different Endgames in Iran

A Shared Enemy, but Diverging Views of Its Motives and Character

By Hussein Banai

 
Displaced women in Al-Ubayyad, Sudan, January 2026

Don’t Partition Sudan Again

Splitting It Didn’t Work in the Past and Won’t Work Now

By Francis M. Deng and Ahmed Kodouda

 

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Europe Cannot Be a Military Power

Why Defense Integration Could Fracture the Continent

By Hugo Bromley

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