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.
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.
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.
Is Negotiating with Putin even possible at this point?
The war in Ukraine has now moved into its second, more protracted, and likely more violent phase. Unsurprisingly, given the extent of Russian atrocities, ongoing negotiations have borne little fruit.
It’s Time to Beat Putin at Poker and Call His Bluff
The West must understand the high-stakes game Russia is engaging in, and use calculated aggression to expose the Kremlin's weak hand.
Regimes are temporary but the semi-sovereigns’ power is forever
Libya and the Global Enduring Disorder sketches the myriad sinews of connections linking Libya, Ukraine, Syria, and Egypt.
Why Putin Is Playing Poker, Not Chess
Russia and the West are now at war. And the delicate dance leading to conflict between nuclear powers is a form of poker, not chess.
When the US shrinks from the stage, things fall apart
Instead of conceiving of Ukraine, Libya, or Syria as exotic, far-away conflict zones disconnected from Americans’ daily life, what if we looked at them as the result of America’s abrupt withdrawal from its empire?