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Coverage of national security laws, sovereignty debates, political systems, and institutional frameworks that shape state behavior.

When the Grid Goes Dark: The Cascading Consequences of Australia's Electricity Vulnerability

Energy & Climate

When the Grid Goes Dark: The Cascading Consequences of Australia's Electricity Vulnerability

Australia's electricity grid faces compounding threats from cyber attacks, extreme weather, and accelerating coal closures. The consequences of major disruption cascade through three orders of magnitude—from immediate infrastructure failure to civilisational transformation. Current planning...

The Wires Beneath the Waves: Tech Giants and Pacific Sovereignty

The Wires Beneath the Waves: Tech Giants and Pacific Sovereignty

Google and its peers are laying cables to connect the Pacific's most isolated nations. The infrastructure brings genuine benefits—and dependencies that look increasingly like digital feudalism. For island governments that cannot maintain what they do not understand, the gift may cost more than...

The Sahel's Hollow Alliance: Why Russian Backing Cannot Save Africa's Juntas

The Sahel's Hollow Alliance: Why Russian Backing Cannot Save Africa's Juntas

Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger expelled Western forces and embraced Moscow's Africa Corps. Eighteen months later, jihadist violence has surged 190% since 2021. The juntas may survive. Their states may not.

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

The Invisible Rewiring: What AI Agents Actually Change

As 79% of enterprises adopt AI agents, the consequential shifts are not in productivity metrics but in organizational connective tissue—informal networks, tacit knowledge, and accountability structures that never appeared on workflow diagrams.

What Breaks First as the Sahel's Security Collapse Spreads to Coastal West Africa?

What Breaks First as the Sahel's Security Collapse Spreads to Coastal West Africa?

The crisis spreading from Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger will not arrive at the coast as an invasion. It will come as school absences, shifting market inventories, and the quiet death of institutional legitimacy. Understanding the sequence reveals which interventions might still work—and which...

When the Clocks Stop: The Hidden Fragility of Global Timing Infrastructure

When the Clocks Stop: The Hidden Fragility of Global Timing Infrastructure

The War Nobody Watches: Why Sudan's Genocide Remains Invisible to Western Powers

The War Nobody Watches: Why Sudan's Genocide Remains Invisible to Western Powers

Sudan controls critical Red Sea access and Africa's third-largest gold reserves. Its civil war has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. The US has declared genocide. Yet Western powers treat it as background noise—a structural failure with strategic consequences.

The Signals That Drowned Themselves

The Signals That Drowned Themselves

When Templates Trump Threats: Australia's Security Blind Spot

When Templates Trump Threats: Australia's Security Blind Spot

The Bondi Beach attack exposed a structural flaw in Australia's counter-terrorism architecture. When threat reality contradicts institutional templates, the system optimizes for legibility over security—with consequences that extend far beyond a single incident.

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Address That Wouldn't Die

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Architecture of Borrowed Trust

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era

The Great Unbundling: Academic Publishing and the Battle for Knowledge in the AI Era