The relationship between China and India represents one of the most interesting paradoxes in contemporary international politics. Two powers that compete for regional influence, harbor strategic distrust, and hold divergent interests regarding the Asian order also have concrete reasons to cooperate

On May 26, 2026, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, then PL's pre-candidate for the presidency in Brazil, was at the White House. The trip was part of the pre-campaign that already used the theme of bilateral relations between the United States and Brazil as a flag, and it was precisely in such a context that a photographic record of Flávio and his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, alongside President Donald Trump, was made

This article analyzes BTS's decision not to submit the album ARIRANG or its tracks for the 69th edition of the Grammys, scheduled for 2027. The gesture came after the Recording Academy announced the category of Best Asian Pop Music Performance, defined by origin or recognition in Asian markets and the significant use of one or more Asian languages. Although presented as an expansion of diversity, the category makes explicit an asymmetry: pop associated with the Anglo-American

he Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, she created one of the most disturbing dystopias in contemporary literature. In Gilead, the United States is transformed into an authoritarian theocracy in which men concentrate political, economic, and religious power, while women are assigned roles determined by gender. Wives manage the household; Marthas serve; Handmaids reproduce. What is most disturbing, however, is not merely the regime’s violence. It is the way that violence is justified.

processes of democratic backsliding have been driven, to a significant extent, by democratically elected governments that exploit legal and constitutional vulnerabilities to weaken checks on the executive and reduce the conditions for genuinely free political competition. Therefore, democratic erosion begins at the ballot box. This does not mean that voting for conservative parties is equivalent to voting against democracy. Such a conclusion would be mistaken and political

The article asks, from an Aristotelian perspective, who the true “idiots” are: those who discuss politics or those who abstain. By revisiting the concepts of zoon politikon and idiótes, it argues that political participation is an essential part of citizenship. In light of more than 33 million abstentions in Brazil, it maintains that withdrawing from the polls does not eliminate the consequences of political decisions and that voting means assuming responsibility for the coll

Flávio Bolsonaro and Lula Face Each Other in the Second Round, Although Bolsonarism Won the Elections with a Majority in the Senate, Congress, and in 11 States... What Was Lost Was the Environment, Civil Rights, National Assets... and Brazil. By Re-Electing People Involved in the Banco Master Case and Others Under Investigation, Was This Really About Voting Against Corruption...?

Beijing is not merely building reactors. It is structuring an energy system capable of supporting artificial intelligence, advanced industry and technological autonomy, while reducing its economy’s exposure to the risks of international energy supply chains.

twenty-first century is marked by a progressive transformation in the distribution of international power, by the intensification of competition among major powers, and by the emergence of new centers of economic, technological, and strategic influence. This article analyzes the implications of this reconfiguration for Africa through three levels of analysis in International Relations: domestic, regional, and systemic.

polarization has reached a point where even the defense of relatively elementary national interests is interpreted through the lens of ideological conflict. If Lula defends a particular international position, some people feel compelled to reject it simply because Lula was the one who defended it

From Security Cooperation to the Construction of a Multipolar Order, with Iran as the New Test of Power Twenty-five years ago, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation was still merely a relatively discreet regional structure, born out of the security concerns of China, Russia, and the Central Asian republics. Its main focus was on borders, terrorism, separatism, and the stability of a region that had long been regarded as peripheral by the Western powers. Today, its weight is

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is going through, in 2026, a phase marked by the consolidation of a war of attrition, in which the ability to sustain military operations, replenish personnel, and exhaust the adversary’s resources has acquired increasing importance.

The United States has been pressuring South Korea to contribute to efforts aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the Strait, which is considered strategic for the international flow of oil, natural gas, and other commodities. The Donald Trump administration has made it clear that it expects greater participation from its allies, and South Korea occupies a particularly relevant position because it is one of Asia’s largest industrial economies

The accelerated expansion of data centers and artificial intelligence is therefore creating a specific sector with high energy demand, in which natural gas tends to occupy an increasingly strategic position. This occurs because digital infrastructures operate 24 hours a day and demand high levels of reliability, frequency stability, and power availability.

On January 3, 2026, in less than three hours, American special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in Caracas, before transferring them to a federal prison in New York. Never before had a sitting head of State been removed from his palace to be incarcerated and tried by the justice system of another country.

In the first weeks of September 2025, Kathmandu and several other cities in Nepal were the scene of massive demonstrations — led mostly by young people from "Generation Z" — protesting against a government action to block social media platforms.

Brazil has taken the first step toward issuing, for the first time, public debt securities in the Chinese financial market. Until now, Brazil's international bond issuances have been concentrated primarily in U.S. dollars and, more recently, in euros. Now, the government intends to access the Chinese capital market directly and raise funds in yuan, China's currency.

The United States and China no longer consider artificial intelligence solely as a high-value-added economic sector, but as a matter of national sovereignty, industrial competitiveness, security, and geopolitical leadership. The race for the dominance of algorithms increasingly resembles the great technological competitions of the 20th century

This July, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting took place in the Philippines at a time when the bloc is simultaneously facing pressure from the growing rivalry between the United States and China, Russia's increasing engagement with the region, the economic repercussions of the war involving Iran, and rising tensions in the South China Sea.

The French diaspora holds vast strategic potential that remains underutilized by the state due to a lack of geopolitical vision and a purely administrative focus. While powers like India and Israel successfully mobilize global networks to boost economics, technology, and international influence, France neglects the highly qualified human capital of its expatriates. The current challenge is to transform this scattered presence into a global power projection infrastructure in a