Maritime chokepoints have repeatedly reshaped global trade—from the 1956 Suez Crisis that shut the canal for nearly five months, cutting off two-thirds of Europe’s oil supplies Imperial War Museums to the week-long Ever Given blockage in March 2021, which held up US $9 billion of goods per day. The present Red Sea crisis is markedly different: beginning in December 2023, sustaine...

This piece aims to shed light on how data—and the physical infrastructure supporting it—shape international relations and foreign policy worldwide. In this day and age governments and Big Tech are choosing the path to further deepening the effects of energy gentrification while further polluting space and our planet’s ground, waters and atmosphere. As the Sustainability directory frames, energy gentrification is; “a socio-spatial process characterized by the displacement or marginaliz...

Following the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid digital transformation, the Global South has reached a crossroads. Digital technologies have changed society, but they have also exacerbated existing disparities. Rural schoolchildren cannot attend online classes, and underfunded healthcare systems lack digital infrastructure, making digital exclusion more than just an inconvenience. It poses a direct threat to human development, institutional trust, and national security.

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In 2001, a Goldman Sachs Economic Research Report titled, ‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs,’ explored the state of the world economy by emphasizing on the relationship between the G7 countries and the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. A modest group of emerging countries which formally came together in 2010, BRICS has remodelled itself as a revis...

All political actions and motives can be reduced to the friend-enemy distinction. This definition is owed to the German jurist Carl Schmitt, a controversial figure among the great names of 20th-century social sciences, who proposed to express, in a concrete and existential sense (in direct opposition to the spiritual-economic dilemma expressed by liberalism), the highest degree of intensity in a bond or a separation, an...

In July 2023, the Earth recorded its hottest day in 1,25,000 years, according to scientists from the University of Maine. Oceans reached unprecedented temperature, wildfires raged across continents, and cities flooded within hours of heavy rain. These were not isolated disasters – they were climate warnings, screaming louder than ever before. Yet, despite scientific certainty and growing evidence, the world continues to respond with the same rehearsed lines: target, timelines, and promises....