Publications
387 published articles
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TechnologyArtificial Intelligence: The Race Trap
On September 23, 2026, Sam Altman sat behind a small nameplate bearing his name in the chamber of the United Nations Security Council. Around him were representatives of the powers entrusted since 1945 with maintaining international peace and security.
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GeopoliticsIsrael: The Doctrine of Necessity
Inside the United Nations General Assembly, diplomats rise from their seats and head for the exits, while others remain and guests in the galleries applaud.
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South AsiaPakistan–Afghanistan: The Border Disappears
For a long time, the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan was above all a disputed line on a map. It separated two states without truly separating the populations, commercial networks, tribes or armed groups moving across the Durand Line.
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Defense & SecurityYanbu: Defending the Backup Route
For decades, the Gulf’s oil vulnerability seemed reducible to a single point on the map: the Strait of Hormuz.
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Arctic & Polar RegionsGreenland: America Without Annexation
In New York on September 22, three signatures brought an extraordinary dispute to a close without requiring any of the parties to accept the humiliation that had once seemed almost inevitable. Donald Trump had wanted Greenland.
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GeopoliticsWest Bank: The State Shrinking Before It Exists
At the United Nations on September 22, 2026, Emmanuel Macron sought to draw a distinction between two Palestinian realities. Gaza, devastated by nearly three years of war and long governed by Hamas.
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EnergyData Centers: The End of Electricity on Demand
For decades, electricity was an almost invisible variable in the digital economy.
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Latin AmericaArgentina: The Milei Experiment
At the United Nations, Javier Milei did not change his register. On September 23, 2026, standing before an organization whose trajectory he was explicitly challenging, Argentina’s president denounced what he sees as an institution that has become bureaucratic, intrusive and increasingly incapable of fulfilling the functions for which it was created.
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South AsiaIndus: When Water Stops Being a Treaty
For more than sixty years, an invisible boundary ran through the conflict between India and Pakistan. It separated neither territories nor armies. It separated politics from water.
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GeopoliticsUnited Nations: America’s Power Without Permission
At the United Nations, the setting was entirely familiar. The green marble, the rows of delegations, the translation headsets, then the president of the United States standing beneath the emblem of an institution created precisely to prevent the power of states from being sufficient to define their rights.
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Trade & IndustryAI: Texas Discovers the Physical Limits of Compute
In Texas, a waiting list has become larger than the system it is asking to access.
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EconomicsDebt: The New Boundaries of Sustainability
Inside the finance ministry of a low-income country, debt sustainability has long ceased to be a matter of simply adding up what is owed abroad.