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The Rise of the “Conflict-Permanence” Industry

The international community’s approach to conflict resolution has undergone a profound and dangerous structural shift, moving away from the pursuit...

17.06.2026 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

The Dwindling Arsenal and the Twilight of the Western Shield

The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of...

08.06.2026 9

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

The peril of transactional deterrence: How the US unwittingly shifted Taiwan's timeline

Washington's shift to a hyper-transactional foreign policy framework has weakened its strategic architecture, making Taiwan a flexible variable in the...

31.05.2026 1

The Hill

Imran Khalid

The Shipping Shield and Washington’s Strategic Miscalculation

The Trump administration is framing its barrage of sanctions announced on April 24, targeting the Hengli Petrochemical refinery in Dalian and 40...

10.05.2026 10

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Marco Rubio and the rise of the real estate ‘shadow state’

The Trump administration has undermined the State Department by relying on personal fixers rather than professional diplomats, resulting in a lack of...

07.05.2026 10

The Hill

Imran Khalid

Pope Leo is Building a Theology of Resistance Against DC

The images coming out of Luanda and Douala this weekend offer a striking contrast to the rhetoric emanating from Washington. While the White House...

03.05.2026 10

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

China’s Middle East Strategy: Calculated Patience

The current volatility in the Middle East has once again placed the global security architecture under immense strain. Despite a fragile ceasefire,...

27.04.2026 10

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

The Islamabad Pivot and the Rise of the Global South’s Diplomatic Order

The collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, followed swiftly by Washington’s announcement of a maritime blockade of the Strait of...

21.04.2026 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

How Islamabad Just Side-Stepped Decades of Failed Middle East Policy

The recent announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran has been met with a predictable mix of relief and skepticism....

13.04.2026 10

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Trump’s Dual Obsessions are Colliding and China’s Gaining Ground

As global markets continue to churn under the weight of a month-long conflict in the Gulf, the strategic map of the world is shifting in a quiet but...

05.04.2026 10

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

The ‘post-global’ NATO: Spain’s airspace ban signals the death of universal alliances

Spain's closure of its airspace to U.S. military aircraft involved in the conflict with Iran marks a shift away from the "blank check" era of American...

05.04.2026 10

The Hill

Imran Khalid

Why the US and China Are Moving Toward a Cold Peace

The high-level negotiations in Paris this week between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng represent more than...

25.03.2026 30

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Why the NDS 2026 Golden Dome is a strategic paperweight

The National Defense Strategy of 2026 represents a shift away from collective security and towards a high-tech shield, potentially isolating the U.S....

10.03.2026 10

The Hill

Imran Khalid

The empty chair in the boardroom: Zelensky skips Trump's Peace Board meeting

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declined to attend Donald Trump's inaugural Board of Peace meeting, signaling that sovereign survival cannot be...

27.02.2026 20

The Hill

Imran Khalid

Trump Tries to Turn Greenland Into Okinawa

In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia established a revolutionary principle that has anchored global order for nearly four centuries: the legal equality of...

19.02.2026 60

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Trump is betting the farm on intuition — and the nuclear clock is ticking

The global security landscape has shifted to one of unmapped volatility, with the expiration of the New START treaty, a high-stakes "Board of Peace"...

16.02.2026 70

The Hill

Imran Khalid

Washington’s Power Recalibration in the Indo-Pacific

In the corridors of Washington, the world is increasingly viewed through the narrow prism of a besieged fortress. For the nations of the Indo-Pacific,...

10.02.2026 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Trump Is Sleepwalking Into War With a Volatile Iran | Opinion

03.02.2026 10

Newsweek

Imran Khalid

Finance, Not Trade, Runs the Global Economy

For much of the last half-century, the study of global exchange rates has been treated as a branch of physics. In the hallowed halls of neoclassical...

28.01.2026 10

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Why the Snatching of Maduro Should Make Washington Worry About the Dollar

For nearly eight decades, the U.S. dollar has occupied a place in the global order that no other currency has matched. It is the world’s default...

19.01.2026 40

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Will the Greenland Adventure Break the Atlantic Alliance? | Opinion

12.01.2026 10

Newsweek

Imran Khalid

The Florida Framework—Sunshine, Symbolism and Searching for Peace | Opinion

29.12.2025 20

Newsweek

Imran Khalid

The Limits of European Strategic Autonomy

Europe is entering a moment of renewed strategic doubt. Conversations about security that once seemed theoretical have taken on a sharper edge as...

29.12.2025 30

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

NATO’s Five Percent Gamble

The agreement by NATO members to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 has been welcomed across Western capitals as a moment of strategic...

03.12.2025 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

The Cold Rush

The Arctic, once a distant and desolate expanse, is now at the epicenter of global competition. March 2025 marked a grim milestone: the smallest...

20.11.2025 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

How China is Turning Climate Action Into Economic Strategy

If global climate diplomacy feels stuck, China’s new 2035 roadmap offers a reminder that ambition and realism can coexist. As world leaders gather...

18.11.2025 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Can the Downward Spiral in US/China Trade be Stopped?

The United States and China are locked in another round of economic confrontation, with actions on both sides intensifying a dispute that has simmered...

23.10.2025 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

The Limits of India/China Rapprochement

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin offered the kind of optics global diplomacy excels at: smiling leaders, carefully staged...

15.09.2025 30

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Another Voice: Deportation economics: The hidden costs of Trump’s immigration blitz

As teachers and families, we need to acknowledge that not being on your phone is going to be difficult, since I think a lot of people are down…...

04.09.2025 20

The Buffalo News

Imran Khalid

The Stockholm Accord and the Future of Sino-American Trade

In the bustling ports of Shanghai and Los Angeles, containers once stalled by trade wars now move with renewed purpose—a quiet testament to the...

27.08.2025 40

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

How Stablecoins Are Reinventing Financial Hegemony

When Circle, the world’s second-largest dollar stablecoin company, floated its shares at the start of June, the reaction was euphoric. By June 27,...

24.07.2025 30

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

After Trade Truce, Can China Rewrite the Tech Rule Book?

The latest Sino-American “handshake”—a 90-day pause on tariffs, semiconductor export bans, and rare-earth chokeholds agreed in Geneva and...

01.07.2025 40

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Netanyahu’s Crisis Driven Grip on Power

By now, it should surprise no one that Benjamin Netanyahu prefers the echo chamber of his own making to the international chorus demanding...

28.05.2025 30

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

India's Strike on Pakistan Isn't About Terrorism or Kashmir | Opinion

The latest military confrontation between India and Pakistan is not a spontaneous response to terrorism.

08.05.2025 20

Newsweek

Imran Khalid

India and Pakistan’s Crisis: Water, War and Warnings

India and Pakistan appear once again to be inching towards the precipice of a perilous confrontation in the wake of a terrorist attack in Pahalgam in...

06.05.2025 30

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

Gold Prices Rise as America's Reputation Sinks | Opinion

Forget equities. Ignore bond yields. If you want to measure the scale of global anxiety right now, look at gold.

29.04.2025 20

Newsweek

Imran Khalid

Trump’s Tariff Gambit

In another characteristically brash maneuver, Donald Trump has intensified his economic confrontation with Beijing, announcing an unprecedented 125...

17.04.2025 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

How Trump’s Tariffs are Driving the World Toward Economic Chaos

President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping reciprocal tariffs, branded as “Liberation Day,” signals a tectonic shift in global trade...

08.04.2025 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid

China Dethrones the US as the Global Leader in Research

In the last decade, a profound shift has taken place in global academia that has fundamentally altered the hierarchy of scientific research. China,...

27.03.2025 20

CounterPunch

Imran Khalid