Global

International institutions, great power competition, international law and the forces shaping world order. Pieces here cover the United Nations, the international courts, multilateral diplomacy and the systemic pressures on the rules-based order — stories that belong to no single geography but implicate all of them.

Alliance by Coercion, Racket by Design

The United States has a rule for the world: sovereignty is inviolable. Borders do not move because the powerful decide they should. Territorial claims are not diplomatic currency. Washington has

By Sunny Peter

/ 28 Apr 2026

No One Left to Veto

A Polish lawmaker held up an Israeli flag defaced with a Nazi symbol inside parliament. Not online. Not anonymous. Inside the chamber. It was Holocaust Remembrance Day. At Auschwitz, survivors

By Sunny Peter

/ 16 Apr 2026

The Price of Impunity

A superpower without allies is merely an island with a large military budget.

By Sunny Peter

/ 3 Apr 2026

The Shield Is Cracking

On March 19, 2026, Germany quietly did something it had loudly promised it would never do. It walked away from Israel’s defence at the International Court of Justice. Two

By Sunny Peter

/ 23 Mar 2026

The Dignity Deficit: When Leaders Stopped Being Serious

On August 9 and 10, 1941, two men sat across from each other aboard the U.S.S. Augusta in Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, and decided the shape of the world

By Sunny Peter

/ 21 Mar 2026

The Dignity Deficit: When Leaders Stopped Being Serious

Platforms, Power, and the Politics of Control: A Conversation with John P. Wihbey

Every day, billions of people wake up and reach for a screen. They scroll through feeds curated by algorithms they did not design, shaped by rules they did not agree

By Sunny Peter

/ 20 Mar 2026

Platforms, Power, and the Politics of Control: A Conversation with John P. Wihbey

The Ungoverned Commons: Can Democracy Tame Social Media?

The era of media has changed. From the printed broadsheet to the radio to the television and now to the smartphone screen, the way human beings consume and produce information

By Sunny Peter

/ 20 Mar 2026

The Ungoverned Commons: Can Democracy Tame Social Media?

When the Numbers Don't Lie: Gaza, Lebanon, and the Legal Case Israel Cannot Close

In January 2026, something remarkable happened. An Israeli military official told journalists that the Israeli army accepted that approximately 70,000 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza since October 2023.

By Sunny Peter

/ 12 Mar 2026

When the Numbers Don't Lie: Gaza, Lebanon, and the Legal Case Israel Cannot Close

Semiconductor Chessboard: How the US-China AI Race is Redrawing Global Alliances and Diplomatic Strategy

When OpenAI's leadership approached the Trump administration in late October 2025 with an ambitious request to expand Chips Act tax credits beyond semiconductor fabrication to cover AI data

By Sunny Peter

/ 12 Nov 2025

Semiconductor Chessboard: How the US-China AI Race is Redrawing Global Alliances and Diplomatic Strategy

The Great Rebalancing: How Multipolarity Is Transforming International Relations in 2025

When Indonesia formally joined BRICS in July 2025, it marked more than an expansion of an economic bloc—it announced the arrival of a genuinely multipolar world. Just days after

By Sunny Peter

/ 8 Nov 2025

The Great Rebalancing: How Multipolarity Is Transforming International Relations in 2025

When Algorithms Go to War: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of International Conflict

The next major international crisis may not begin with troops massing at borders or warships crossing into disputed waters. It might start with an algorithm detecting an anomaly, triggering an

By Sunny Peter

/ 18 Oct 2025

When Algorithms Go to War: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of International Conflict

They Predicted AI Would Rationalize Diplomacy. It Made Everything Worse

In September 2025, when the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a landmark resolution establishing the first truly global AI governance mechanisms—an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI and

By Sunny Peter

/ 11 Oct 2025

They Predicted AI Would Rationalize Diplomacy. It Made Everything Worse