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  • The Donroe Doctrine: A New Era for Cuba?

    The Donroe Doctrine: A New Era for Cuba?

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    Said Ghneim
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    Question: Focused on the “Donroe Doctrine” vs regional stability. Argument: Centred on the use of Venezuelan energy as a coercive tool. Conclusion: Highlighted the EU’s “middleman” role via the PDCA framework.

  • The African Sky

    The African Sky

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    Wojciech Kaczanowski
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    Question: How can Africa maintain strategic autonomy while navigating the intensifying U.S.-China “space race”? Argument: Africa’s “space for development” model leverages international partnerships not for prestige, but as essential tools for data sovereignty and socioeconomic transformation. Conclusion: To avoid terrestrial patterns of exclusion, African states must foster domestic investment and benefit-sharing to ensure space remains…

  • Nordic-Baltic Eight

    Nordic-Baltic Eight

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    Robin Sonnendruecker
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    Main question: How Does the NB8 Navigate Current International Crises? Argument: Strong support to Kyiv + unity and integration from external threats + cautious reaction from internal issues + integration and security management. Conclusion: NB8’s strength lies in its multi-layered integration + NB8 must find a good balance between accommodating US strategic concerns and carefully…

  • Breaking Diplomatic Norms

    Breaking Diplomatic Norms

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    Lidia Minich
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    Israel’s recognition of Somaliland at the end of 2025, Somalia’s territorial integrity, and decades of international consensus. This unilateral move reframes Somaliland’s three-decade independence as legitimate dissolution rather than illegal secession. The brief argues that state recognition is primarily driven by geopolitical interests, rather than objective legal criteria.

  • Rethinking EU Strategic Autonomy

    Rethinking EU Strategic Autonomy

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    Xavier Heck
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    How can the EU build strategic autonomy and relevance in a multipolar world without isolationism? Strategic autonomy must shift from self-reliance to mutual resilience through inclusive, horizontal partnerships with the Global South. An inclusive approach strengthens EU competitiveness, legitimacy, and long-term influence in a reformed multilateral order.

  • Jamal Khashoggi and US–Saudi Relations

    Jamal Khashoggi and US–Saudi Relations

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    Kuzey Tunguz
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    How has Jamal Khashoggi’s murder affected US–Saudi relations? Despite intelligence linking the killing to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and subsequent sanctions, both the Trump and Biden administrations largely prioritized strategic interests over accountability, emphasizing security cooperation, energy interdependence, and countering Iran. The case altered rhetoric but not the structure of US–Saudi relations, which ultimately…

  • Implications of China–Russia Security Talks

    Implications of China–Russia Security Talks

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    Makar Briggs
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    – How durable is China–Russia security cooperation, and how do Japan and Ukraine test its limits? – The partnership is not an alliance but a flexible, institutionalised coordination that allows alignment while managing risk, asymmetry, and disagreement – China–Russia security ties will persist but remain cautious and conditional, shaped by strategic signalling in Asia and…

  • Wiring the Arctic

    Wiring the Arctic

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    Aniol Escorihuela Roca
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    Can the Arctic become a secure alternative to vulnerable global data corridors? Climate change and rising digital demand make Arctic submarine cables viable, supporting economic activity, scientific research, Arctic communities, and military operations. Competing Western and Russian projects are turning digital infrastructure into a new arena of geopolitical rivalry, reshaping power dynamics in the Arctic.

  • The 8th Edition of the Paris Peace Forum

    The 8th Edition of the Paris Peace Forum

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    Julia Gruber
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    Main question of the Paris Peace Forum: How can Europe find effective leadership and agency in a fractured world order marked by war, climate crisis, and inequality? Argument: Europe must act more united and autonomous, face Russia more fiercly, strengthen multilateralism, empower female leadership , and move from climate promises to implementation. Conclusion: Only coordinated,…

  • The End of an Era

    The End of an Era

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    Artur Rath
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    How does the new U.S. National Security Strategy reshape American global engagement and regional priorities under an “America First” framework? The NSS limits global leadership, revives the Monroe Doctrine in the Western Hemisphere, makes European security conditional, favors deterrence in Asia, and focuses on resources and trade in Africa. Overall, it marks a return to…