Publications
387 published articles
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PoliticsMorocco: A New Political Cycle
On September 29, 2026, at the Royal Palace in Rabat, one photograph marked Morocco’s entry into a new political sequence. Six days after the parliamentary elections, Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri Head of Government and tasked her with forming the new executive. For the first time in the Kingdom’s history, a woman has reached this position.
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Central America & CaribbeanPanama: The Canal Enters the Age of Scarcity
In Panama, the distance between two oceans is measured in kilometers. But the ability to connect them is increasingly measured in meters of water.
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Oceania & PacificPacific: The Ocean Becomes a Strategic Space
On a political map of the world, the Pacific still looks like an immense blue void.
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Central AsiaCentral Asia: The Return of a Region
For a long time, Central Asia existed on maps mainly through what surrounded it. Russia to the north. China to the east. Afghanistan and Iran to the south.
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Art & CultureFrom Woodstock to Pride: When Counterculture Becomes Culture
In August 1969, a farm in upstate New York became, for a few days, the center of a world that no longer wanted to resemble the one inherited from its parents. Around 400,000 people converged on Woodstock.
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Trade & IndustryWashington and Beijing Organize Their Economic Coexistence
Sixty billion dollars may appear modest compared with the scale of trade between the world’s two largest economies. Yet the commercial arrangement unveiled by Washington and Beijing in late September may ultimately matter less for the goods it covers than for the architecture it begins to establish.
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TechnologyStarship : l’orbite change la nature du programme
The launch looked much like the ones before it. A tower, a 124-meter stainless-steel vehicle, thirty-three engines beneath its first stage, and a few minutes during which SpaceX still had to demonstrate that its enormous rocket could survive what was being asked of it. But on September 28, 2026, something changed above Texas: Starship did not simply travel farther. For the first time, it had something to deliver.
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Defense & SecurityEurope: Defence Begins to Change Scale
On one side, there are €325 million. On the other, an ambition approaching €190 billion. Between the two lies perhaps the most important element: an architecture Europe has never truly built before.
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MarketsSaudi Arabia: The Monetary Limits of Its Rapprochement With China
For more than a year, Saudi Arabia was no longer part of mBridge. Almost no one knew.
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GeopoliticsUnited States–China: Learning to Live With Rivalry
For three days, Washington rediscovered the choreography of a major state visit. Donald Trump went to welcome Xi Jinping upon his arrival.
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MarketsUSDC: When the Money Stays in the Wallet but the Risk Is Already Inside
One hundred dollars. One dollar and thirty cents the next day.
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EconomicsChina: After the Market, the Algorithm
For four decades, one of China’s great strengths was its willingness not to control everything.