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United States
129 reports in this category.
The Leviathan's Edge: Why America Still Monopolises the Future
While critics forecast a hollowed-out empire, the United States has widened its lead in the global technology race. The reason is not policy, but a unique synthesis of capital risk, institutional elasticity, and geographic isolation.
1 Mar 2026
Debt, Dominance, and the Weaponisation of the Dollar
The United States faces a mounting fiscal crisis, but the real threat to the dollar's hegemony is not solvency—it is the erosion of the trust required to underpin the world's primary neutral settlement tool.
1 Jan 2026
The Fractional Guard: Why the Petrodollar Survives by Shrinking
While headlines predict the dollar’s total demise, the true shift is far more subtle. We are entering a period of strategic fragmentation where the US dollar trades its monopoly for a more durable, albeit smaller, sphere of influence.
1 Sept 2025
The State Reborn: America’s Retreat from Globalisation
The United States has abandoned the neoliberal consensus in favour of a forceful industrial policy. This shift marks the end of an era, driven by the necessity of national security over the efficiency of the market.
1 May 2025
The Atlantic Drift: Why the Western Alliance is Structurally Fraying
The unity of the West is not being broken by external adversaries, but by the diverging economic incentives and security realities of its core members. Washington and Brussels are no longer following the same map.
1 Jan 2025
The Shale Fortress: Why Energy Independence Ended the American Empire
The American shale revolution did more than lower petrol prices; it destroyed the fundamental logic of the post-1945 global order. No longer tethered to Middle Eastern stability, Washington is now structurally incentivised to export chaos.
1 Sept 2024
The Invisible War: Why Washington and Beijing Deny the New Cold War
While policymakers in Washington and Beijing officially reject the 'Cold War' label, a structural confrontation over semiconductor supremacy and maritime chokepoints is already reshaping the global economy into two irreconcilable trade blocs.
1 May 2024
The Overstretch Trap: Can America Sustain a Three-Front Pivot?
As Washington attempts to manage simultaneous crises in Ukraine, the Levant, and the Taiwan Strait, the constraint is no longer just political will, but a structural deficit in industrial capacity and strategic focus.
1 Jan 2024
The Imperial Primary: Why the 2024 Vote is a Geopolitical Stress Test
Beyond the noise of domestic populism, the 2024 US election represents a structural referendum on the cost of empire. Washington must decide if it remains the world’s security guarantor or transitions into a transactional regional power.
1 Sept 2023
Why has Saudi Arabia established a mission to Palestine in Jerusalem?
15 Aug 2023
Can Iran’s release of US citizens cool rising tensions between the two powers?
11 Aug 2023
Is normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia now impossible?
28 Jun 2023
The Sovereign Snare: How Financial Force Undermines the Dollar
As Washington increasingly uses the US dollar as a tactical weapon, it risks eroding the strategic structural advantage that underpins its global primacy. Sanctions are effective in the short term, but they incentivise a permanent alternative architecture.
1 May 2023
Will tensions escalate between Iran and the US in Syria?
26 Mar 2023
Why is the UAE ignoring anti-Russia sanctions?
8 Mar 2023
Has the Lebanon-Israel historic deal proven the US still holds significant sway in the region?
13 Oct 2022
Is Armenia shifting from Russia to the US?
22 Sept 2022
Has the Biden administration strengthened the US’s ties with Israel?
26 Jul 2022