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Peace is not an Inheritance: 8 May and the Crisis of International Order

Eighty-one years ago today, at 11.01pm Central European Time, the Second World War in Europe came to an end. More than 10 million members of the Alli

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A China Strategy for the Middle Powers

Source and discussion: Olters, Jan-Peter (2026). ‘Une stratégie chinoise pour les puissances moyennes’, Conseil des relations inte

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800 Years of Lübeck’s Reichsfreiheit: Free Trade, Prosperity, and Their Current Enemies

The foundations of the global trading system on which prosperity depends are under attack. In an era of military conflict, disrupted shipping routes,

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How Not to Build a Tariff Regime—Presidential Overreach, Congressional Abdication

It may prove the current US administration’s emperor’s-new-clothes moment. On 20 February 2026, the US Supreme Court struck down the central

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