France’s Gas Shock and the Price of Europe’s Strategic Dependence

On October 1, France’s reference price for natural gas rose another 6.3 percent, from €172.05 to €182.88 per megawatt-hour. Since the beginning of 2026, the household gas benchmark has risen […]
The United States intensifies its pressure on Cuba

We must start by eliminating rhetoric. The United States wants to bring about fundamental political change in Cuba and is accumulating instruments to try to do so. The serious question […]
Lebanon at the Edge of a Negotiated Breakdown

The negotiations between Tel Aviv, Washington, and Beirut do not yet amount to a peace process. They represent a coercive attempt to convert a military stalemate into a political rearrangement […]