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From Law Enforcement to Zones of Exception

TheOtherPen Jan 31, 2026
From Law Enforcement to Zones of Exception

From Law Enforcement to Zones of Exception U.S. Immigration Policy Between Present Reality and Future Consequences…

Europe’s Power Paradox: Why a Rich Continent Still Struggles to Act

TheOtherPen Jan 28, 2026
European strategic control table showing defence, energy, technology and trade assets managed through separate national levers

Europe has spent years being told that it must become more powerful. The strange thing is…

Pressure as Policy: Why Strategic Ambiguity Has Returned to Western Diplomacy

TheOtherPen Jan 28, 2026
Pressure as Policy: Why Strategic Ambiguity Has Returned to Western Diplomacy

According to a growing number of political analysts, the defining feature of contemporary Western diplomacy is…

The Myth of a Rules-Based International Order: Power, Hypocrisy, and the Unmasking of Global Governance

TheOtherPen Jan 26, 2026
The Myth of a Rules-Based International Order: Power, Hypocrisy, and the Unmasking of Global Governance

For decades, the international system has been presented—especially to the Global South—as a “rules-based order” founded…

When Markets Stop Competing: Wealth, Power and the Transformation of Contemporary Capitalism

TheOtherPen Jan 18, 2026
Small businesses and workers approaching a controlled corporate gateway representing concentrated market power in contemporary capitalism

Capitalism has always produced winners. The more difficult question is what happens when those winners become…