Independent research and editorial writing on Europe, Ukraine, Russia, defence and political power.
Let the Future Govern the Future
Gabriel Attal's call for a United States of Europe matters less as a blueprint than as a transfer of moral authority from the generation that failed to the generation that must live with the consequences.
Articles
All articles →"Biolab" is not a category
The word does more work than the evidence can bear. A short argument for reading the foreign-laboratories debate one facility at a time.
Remember the Melian Dialogue
In 416 BC, Athens told the Melians that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. Being right did not save Melos — and treaties without enforcement have not saved Ukraine either.
Russia Scattered the Ukrainians — and Connected Ukraine to the World
Russia tried to weaken Ukraine by scattering its people. It may instead have created a global Ukrainian network connecting Ukraine to the democratic world.
The Strategic, Political, and Geopolitical Cascades of a Ukrainian Capitulation
A scenario analysis of the political, humanitarian, military and global cascades that could follow an immediate Ukrainian capitulation.
Europe Must Accept That We Are Living Through a New Cold War
A political argument that Europe's post-1991 assumptions about peace, trade and American protection have collapsed, and that recovering a Cold War-era seriousness about deterrence is now unavoidable.
Ukraine's War of Independence
The war in Ukraine is usually called an invasion or a crisis. A growing number of historians and journalists call it something more precise — a war of independence.
Research
All research →Russia as a Death Cult: Who Supports the Theory?
A growing body of scholarship interprets Putinism as a political religion built around sacrifice, historical suffering, military death and the destruction of enemies. This dossier surveys who has made that argument, what each of them actually claims, and how well each claim holds up against the source.
Foreign biological laboratories and international biological cooperation
SAMPLE DOSSIER. A structured examination of the laboratories, programmes and treaties behind the "foreign biolabs" controversy, separating documented cooperation from unverified allegations.
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All articles →Russia as a Death Cult: Who Supports the Theory?
Putinism increasingly legitimises itself through sacrifice, historical suffering and supposedly meaningful death. Who developed this interpretation, and what does it mean?
Europe Is Rearming. But Who Is Actually Building the Weapons?
Deterrence is not a press conference. It is a factory schedule the adversary believes. Who is actually building Europe's arsenal?