Marine-Tech States: A Geoeconomic Architecture for US Maritime Leadership Against China’s Blue Expansion

Electro vs. Petro? Think Synergy Beyond Energy! Lately, pundits have increasingly relied on an &#8216;electro‑state vs. petro‑state&#8217; frame to describe the post‑Iran-war energy–industrial realignment and its implications for the global economic order. Yet this framing is strategically flawed, because it implicitly treats green industries as the only viable evolutionary path to an &#8216;electro&#8217; industrial revolution [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/07/05/marine-tech-states-a-geoeconomic-architecture-for-us-maritime-leadership-against-chinas-blue-expansion/></div>

2026/7/5
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A Parliament Sullied

The existence of democracies in human civilisations is not something that came about by accident or is naturally occurring in most parts of the globe. On many occasions, Ancient Greek civilisations who established complex and meaningful measures to balance the powers of their societies lost their democratic traditions to despots, warlords, and foreign empires. Democracy [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/07/02/a-parliament-sullied/></div>

2026/7/2
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The Condition of Hindu Minorities in Pakistan: A Continuing Human Rights Challenge

  The condition of Hindu minorities in Pakistan has remained a subject of concern for human rights organizations, minority-rights advocates, journalists, and international observers for decades. Issues including religious discrimination, forced conversions, attacks on temples, social exclusion, and extremist violence have repeatedly appeared in reports discussing the broader condition of religious minorities in the country. [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/06/30/the-condition-of-hindu-minorities-in-pakistan-a-continuing-human-rights-challenge/></div>

2026/6/30
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To Curb China’s Maritime Ambition, the U.S. and Allies Must Forge Trusted Maritime Port Networks

Over the last twenty years, China has moved with calculated speed to assemble a sophisticated and highly integrated network of global ports. According to the Council on Foreign Relations tracker on Chinese overseas ports, Chinese firms and state‑linked entities have invested in or acquired operational stakes in 129 overseas port projects worldwide. China’s maritime footprint [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/06/29/to-curb-chinas-maritime-ambition-the-u-s-and-allies-must-forge-trusted-maritime-port-networks/></div>

2026/6/29
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Khalid Omer Youssef briefs EU leaders about Sudan crisis

High level meetings were organized today at the European Parliament in Brussels following Berlin Summit with Khalid Omar Youssef former minister of cabinet affairs in Sudan and rapporteur of the civil democratic alliance &#8220;Somoud “ .Mr Youssef met with several members of the European Parliament members of Foreign Affairs committee as well as EU-Africa committee [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/05/10/khalid-omer-youssef-briefs-eu-leaders-about-sudan-crisis/></div>

2026/5/10
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Mirror Universe: China

As fluctuations in the oil and gas markets come from almost daily policy changes in the Middle East, purchasers of Persian Gulf dependant oil exports nervously plan contingencies on how to manage possible outcomes. While allies like Europe, South Korea and Japan try to figure out the intricacies of producing and manufacturing with reduced petroleum [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/05/08/mirror-universe-china/></div>

2026/5/8
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Delegated Sovereignty vs Absolute Control: Portugal and Argentina through the Burke Framework

Sovereignty is often understood as control. The more control a state retains, the more sovereign it appears. Yet the comparative trajectories of Portugal and Argentina challenge this assumption. One has voluntarily delegated key powers and achieved stability. The other has preserved formal autonomy and experienced repeated crises. The Burke Sovereignty Index (2024–2025) offers a structured [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/05/06/delegated-sovereignty-vs-absolute-control-portugal-and-argentina-through-the-burke-framework/></div>

2026/5/6
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UN Adopts Resolution Condemning North Korea Human Rights Abuses; South Korea Co‑Sponsors Amid a Compromising Shift From CVID‑Focused Denuclearization

At the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 30, 2026, South Korea reaffirmed its position on human rights in North Korea, joining 50 countries as a co-sponsor of the council’s annual resolution. The move marked Seoul’s first such participation since the inauguration of President Lee Jae-myung, a former [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/04/17/un-adopts-resolution-condemning-north-korea-human-rights-abuses-south-korea-co-sponsors-amid-a-compromising-shift-from-cvid-focused-denuclearization/></div>

2026/4/17
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Board of Peace Cultivates a New Corridor of the Willing: Kosovo Moves to Deploy Troops to Gaza, Demonstrating State Capacity

On March 30, 2026, Kosovo’s government, led by Prime Minister Albin Kurti, approved deployment of troops to Gaza as part of the Board of Peace –aligned International Stabilization Force (ISF), thereby aligning itself with a U.S.-backed and UN‑mandated mission. The initial Kosovo Security Force (KSF) operation element is expected to consist largely of specialized units—demining [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/04/15/board-of-peace-cultivates-a-new-corridor-of-the-willing-kosovo-moves-to-deploy-troops-to-gaza-demonstrating-state-capacity/></div>

2026/4/15
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The Falling Regimes

The dismantling of the Iranian Regime came in like a storm, but it is really an extension of a greater strategy to limit a larger conflict at the other end of the continent. With the securing of a significant level of control over Venezuelan energy exports, the remaining source of energy infrastructure from China&#8217;s allies [&#8230;]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2026/04/13/the-falling-regimes/></div>

2026/4/13
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