What makes a martyr? Alexei Navalny shines a light on Vladimir Putin's evil tyranny.
What makes a martyr? Alexei Navalny shines a light on Vladimir Putin's evil tyranny.
Blame Netanyahu for Gaza, not ‘the Jews’
The Israeli prime minister’s failed, immoral policies are a deadly own goal – and they are pure neopopulism.
The Road to Middle East Peace Runs Through Doha
Bringing together Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to administer postwar Gaza could weaken Iranian and Russian regional influence. Jason Pack explores, in Foreign Press.
Is peace there for the taking? Jason Pack on Israel, Gaza, the Middle East and beyond
Andrew Keen and Jason Pack discuss the disorder in Israel, Gaza, the Middle East and beyond.
Terror and Tyranny have led Libya to a Biblical Catastrophe
It isn’t that no one cares about justice and human life, but that we have failed to confront the enemies of an ordered world. Jason Pack explores how the disaster in Libya, and other disparate daily catastrophes, are actually all symptoms of the Global Enduring Disorder.
Let’s Go Back to the Future to Reinvigorate the Backgammon World Championships
Jason Pack addresses recent proposals on the future of the Backgammon World Championships and suggests some alternative solutions to make Backgammon great again.
Prigozhin’s Abortive Coup Signals Open Season on Putin
The Russian autocrat joins a long line of rulers to find their personal armies turning on them. Jason Pack looks to the past and foretells the future as the dust settles from mercenary rebellion in Russia, in the Telegraph.
Russia’s Sexual Health Crisis Just Got Militarised
Russia is facing a spiralling sexual health crisis charged by the Kremlin's abandonment of marginalized groups, and this crisis is particularly acute in Russian prisons. As the Russian Army adopts Wagner Group's practice of prisoner recruits, is the crisis set to translate into military weakness on the frontlines? Jason Pack and Guy Fiennes explore.
Tunisia's slide into autocracy is following all too familiar a pattern
Neopopulism has led to democratic backsliding and a culture of paranoia. While on the scene for the Tunis Book Fair, Jason Pack surveys the Tunisian state of affairs.
Sudan Proves that the Only Thing Worse than Western Meddling is Western Absence
As the situation in Sudan escalates, it is clear that the root problem of contemporary Western foreign policy isn’t meddling too much; it’s meddling too little. Jason Pack explains in The Telegraph.
Georgia’s Options at the Abkhazian Border
Jason Pack and Lolita Brayman travel to the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia and mull over its unique history, and relationship with Russia on the one hand and Georgia on the other. What options does Tbilisi actually have on the Abkhaz Border?
The Libyan Banking Sector: A Microcosm of Global Enduring Disorder
Jason Pack and Stefano Marcuzzi argue that Libya’s CBL is a microcosm of our era of Global Enduring Disorder.
Interview – Jason Pack
Jason Pack discusses his paradigm of Global Enduring Disorder for E-International and the experiences that brought him to his unique perspective on international relations.
Libya’s implosion: the cascading effects of the 2012 killings in Benghazi
The notion that American policies throughout the Middle East failed as a result of the US's engagement with Islamist actors' is incorrect.
Was Sweden ever neutral?
When Sweden finally does join NATO – which is likely to happen later this year, it will mean the end of over 200 years of supposed ‘neutrality’. But was Sweden ever really neutral?
AUKUS Represents the Future of Collective Deterrence
AUKUS may be the most consequential step toward reasserting meaningful Anglosphere collaboration that could serve as a model for how to address common problems and hostile states.
No More Neutrality: NATO and the Twilight of Swedish Exceptionalism
NATO membership signifies expedience at the expense of a self-aggrandizing national myth that has become increasingly difficult to sustain. The chaotic membership process for Sweden has been illustrative of the Global Enduring Disorder.
In the Arctic, cooperation with Russia is simply too important
Russia’s campaign against Ukraine’s people deserves our full condemnation. But there are crucial areas (climate change and preservation of the Arctic) where our and global interests will be worse off if we don’t work with Russia.
The west must work with Russia to save the Arctic
With the erosion of the tentative co-operation of the post-cold war era, the Arctic seemed to be the last bastion of a functional rules-based international order
‘Our Enduring Disorder’: An Interview with Author, and Libya Expert Jason Pack
To understand where things currently stand in Libya, we turned to Libya expert and historian Jason Pack.