John Foster / 26 Jun 2026
The Illusion of Equality
Italy and American Power
Donald Trump’s clash with Giorgia Meloni lays bare the growing fragility of the Atlantic alliance.(...)
Sovereignty
John Foster / 19 Jun 2026
Demographic Populism Failure
The No to Ten Million Switzerland Referendum
The Swiss referendum on population growth underscored the limitations of centrism.(...)
John Foster / 01 May 2026
Undermining Europe From Within
France Under Far-Right Rule
A Rassemblement National victory probably won’t lead to the crisis that European elites once feared.(...)
John Foster / 27 Feb 2026
The State Comes First
Giorgia Meloni’s Years of Lead
Giorgia Meloni has discovered that the most useful period of Italian history is not the Fascist era but the Years of Lead.(...)
John Foster / 23 Jan 2026
Selling Out to the Far Right
Manfred Weber and the Logic of Trumpism
For Donald Trump, Greenland is both an absurd fixation and an almost perfect one.(...)
John Foster / 09 Jan 2026
Imperialism Without Confidence
The Arrest of Nicolás Maduro
Strip away the premise that the arrest of Nicolás Maduro has anything to do with drug trafficking, and what remains is a form of power politics that had seemed rhetorically obsolete.(...)
John Foster / 10 Oct 2025
Shackled, Prosecuted and Elected to Parliament
The Case of Ilaria Salis
The spectacle was shocking: a schoolteacher from Italy in a Budapest courtroom, her hands and feet in chains, as if she were a medieval brigand.(...)
John Foster / 08 Aug 2025
The Power of Space
The Geopolitics of Carl Schmitt and Gerard Toal
Whoever draws the map usually holds the gun.(...)
Max Sattonnay / 26 Sep 2024
Puerto Rico Dreaming
The Colonial State
Just call it a colony. Neither an independent country nor an American state, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has no sovereignty.(...)