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Fusing the arsenal: from disparate economic tools to strategic power
Geopolitika · ASPI Strategist · Bliski Istok · 26. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

The widening conflict involving Iran is causing shipping disruptions that are threatening global fuel supplies. But this is only the latest reminder that economic vulnerability is strategic vulnerability. It reinforces that markets are now arenas ...

The Gulf on the front line: The end of strategic hedging and new space for Europeans
Geopolitika · ECFR · Bliski Istok · 26. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

The war on Iran marks a turning point in the security calculus of the Gulf monarchies. Strategic hedging has failed—and Europeans could become just the reliable partners the monarchies need.

Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village
Geopolitika · Bellingcat · Bliski Istok · 26. ožujka 2026. · OSINT

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. Several people were killed according to Iranian media.  Three experts told Bellingcat the munitions appeared to be air-delivered US-made Gator an…

Australia, too, is in the shadow of the Shahed
Geopolitika · ASPI Strategist · Bliski Istok · 25. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

Unexpectedly, today’s signature weapon is the Iranian Shahed drone now in use in wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. These drones are not just a distant problem. Their range means that, if launched from ...

Capturing the data centre gold rush is a strategic imperative for Australia
Geopolitika · ASPI Strategist · Bliski Istok · 25. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

If you were a tech giant that had set up data centres in the Middle East because of the cheap fossil-fuel power and permissive regulatory environment, you might now be looking wistfully at Australia. Right ...

Proxy Pressure on Iran: The Promise and Pitfalls of Arming the Kurds
Sigurnost · War on the Rocks · Bliski Istok · 25. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

Early in the ongoing war against Iran, the Trump administration and its ally, Israel, believed they could foment a popular uprising to topple the Iranian regime. Part of that plan involved arming Kurdish fighters to infiltrate Iran from their locations in Iraq.The idea had intuit…

Hormuz hold’em: How to stop the US-Iran crisis in the strait
Geopolitika · ECFR · Bliski Istok · 23. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

If Trump follows through on his threat to bomb Iran’s energy infrastructure, the Strait of Hormuz is likely to shut down entirely and the catastrophic energy crisis will deepen. Europeans need to push for an urgent and sustainable ceasefire.

Stop the World: military force not enough to overcome nuclear ambitions
Geopolitika · ASPI Strategist · Bliski Istok · 22. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

The US–Israeli military campaign against Iran is unlikely to extinguish the sparks of the regime’s nuclear program, one of the world’s top arms control experts says. This raises the prospect that diplomacy and deterrence will ...

Europe, Trump and the war in Iran
Geopolitika · ECFR · Bliski Istok · 20. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

Mark Leonard welcomes Piotr Buras, Carla Hobbs, Camille Lons, Jana Puglierin and Arturo Varvelli to discuss how Europe is responding to the war in Iran

War in the Middle East
Geopolitika · ECFR · Bliski Istok · 13. ožujka 2026. · Think-tank

Mark Leonard welcomes Aziz Alghashian, Eran Etzion and Ellie Geranmayeh to discuss the implications of a prolonged war in the Middle East and possible ceasefire scenarios

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