Publications
387 published articles
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EuropePoland: The East Gains Weight
For a long time, Europe looked at itself from the West. Its economic centre lay somewhere between the Rhine Valley, the Benelux countries and northern Italy; its political centre oscillated between Paris, Bonn and later Berlin and Brussels; its security, meanwhile, rested largely on a power located across the Atlantic.
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MarketsProp Firms: The Hidden Economics of Funded Trading
One hundred thousand dollars for a few hundred. The proposition almost sounds too simple. A trader with limited capital pays for an evaluation, follows a set of risk rules, reaches a performance target and, if successful, gains access to what is presented as a “funded” account. Profits can then be shared, sometimes with the trader retaining a very large portion.
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GeopoliticsAlgeria–UAE: The Break Between Two Shores
Sometimes a diplomatic rupture merely acknowledges a separation that has already taken place. On September 10, 2026, Algeria announced that it was severing diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates. According to Algerian state television, Algiers considered that it had “
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SocietyHealth: The Body Becomes Technological
For thousands of years, medicine worked with what the body was willing to reveal.
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GeopoliticsNorth Korea: Nuclear Power Changes Scale
For a long time, North Korea’s nuclear programme could be reduced to a handful of names.
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EconomicsUSA–Canada: The Commercial Border Is Closing
For decades, the border between the United States and Canada was less an economic divide than a seam.
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CorporateiPhone: The World in Your Pocket
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs walked onto the Macworld stage in San Francisco with a peculiar way of introducing what was about to come. Apple, he explained, was unveiling three products: a widescreen iPod with touch controls, a mobile phone, and an Internet communications device. Then he repeated himself. An iPod. A phone. The Internet. These were not three separate devices. They were one.
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TechnologyAI Takes Position in Orbit
From Abu Dhabi to the ecosystem built by Elon Musk, artificial intelligence is beginning to move beyond terrestrial data centers and into orbit. Behind intelligent satellites and orbital computing projects, a new layer of global infrastructure is taking shape, where sovereign capital, launch systems, constellations, networks and AI models converge.
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CorporateAmazon: the empire behind the storefront
There is still something strangely misleading about the name Amazon. For hundreds of millions of consumers, it primarily means a website where they can order a book, a phone, a coffee machine, or almost anything else that can fit inside a cardboard box. That image is not wrong. It has simply become profoundly incomplete.
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SocietyBoycott: The Economics of Refusal
Sometimes, all it takes is buying nothing.
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EconomicsDigital Money: The New Architecture of Money
Money became digital long before the expression “digital currency” entered the vocabulary of central banks.
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MarketsChocolate: Behind Brown Gold
It takes only a few seconds to eat a square of chocolate. It takes years to grow the cocoa tree that made it possible, months to harvest, ferment and dry its beans, an international logistics chain to transport them, considerable industrial infrastructure to process them, and finally the full power of marketing and distribution to make consumers forget the journey altogether.