Global conflict management is moving from the pursuit of justice to the imposition of order and the commodification of peace. Russian Authoritarian Conflict Management no longer represents an outlier, but a precursor to the emerging U.S. transactional approach, exemplified by Trump’s Board of Peace. As a privatized model of governance converges with authoritarian stabilization, has stability become a commodity that only the powerful can afford?

On November 7, 2025, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi informed the Diet that if China were to use armed force against Taiwan, it could constitute a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan, thereby justifying a military defensive mobilization in response. This statement breached Japan’s long-lasting ambiguity on the issue and set in motion a series of political, diplomatic, and economic consequences.

Da giorni la Groenlandia è sotto i riflettori a causa dell’avanzamento delle pretese americane di annessione del territorio, il dibattito politico internazionale, il conseguente invio di contingenti e quello che sembrava l’inizio di una nuova guerra ai dazi. Tra le numerose ragioni che ne accrescono la rilevanza strategica, la presenza di risorse critiche gioca un ruolo fondamentale nella corsa all’Artico, specialmente nella prospettiva dell’Unione Europea.

With over 139.000 km2 of land littered with mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) as of June 2025, representing almost a quarter of its territory, Ukraine has become one of the countries most contaminated with mines and ERW globally.

Tunisia, once considered the most successful democratic story of the Arab Spring, is now facing its gravest political crisis since 2011. The recent arrests of opposition figures, lawyers, and activists mark not isolated events but the culmination of a broader and recent authoritarian turn.

In July 2025, the US Congress adopted the Genius Act, a first federal law governing the use of stablecoins, these crypto-assets indexed on the dollar. Unlike bitcoin, which is highly volatile, these "stable tokens" are designed to maintain a permanent 1:1 dollar exchange rate. Supporters say it offers legal clarity, consumer protections and a path for programmable money. Critics say it raises a deeper question :

If issuers are tightly steered into holding cash and short‑term Treasurys, does that make them structural buyers of US debt ? And even more importantly, what are the implications for foreign states and other players ?