The year 2026 brought with it the bitter taste of colonialism and military interventionism, especially for the Latin American region, whose 20th-century history still leaves dark traces of authoritari...

By Nicolas Zupardo Dutra and Cinthya Araújo* The Herculean Challenge of Syrian Reconstruction Although Bashar Al-Assad’s fall on December 8, 2024, generated cautious optimism about the country’s futur...

By Débora Guedes Falcão and Cinthya Araújo* This column analyzes the latest developments in the relationship between the United States and Venezuela, which entered a new chapter in recent weeks as the...

By Nicolas Zupardo Dutra* and Cinthya Araújo In December 2024, we published a column discussing the Syrian rebel offensive and its implications for the country’s future. This article can be understood...

Ever since humanity took to the skies with airplanes, the risk of losing highly skilled pilots has always been a pressing issue. Since the final years of World War I, people began thinking about and a...

As reported by DPolitik, on 6 March, at around 10am (local time), residents of the city of Pocheon were surprised by the accidental bombing of two KF-16 fighter jets. Amazingly, the two jets dropped a...

By Nicolas Zupardo Dutra e Cinthya Araújo* “Welcome back, Bashar Al-Assad,” was the headline of an article published by the German newspaper Deutsche Welle at the beginning of 2023, discussing the pos...

“It is very good to discuss agreements with a credible squad behind you”, this phrase, then credited to the Baron of Rio Branco, can be flagged as dated, but it cannot be denied that, as a statesman o...

THE CLASSICAL VIEW OF GEOPOLITICS At the end of the Second World War, career diplomat George Kennan helped shape the geostrategic thinking of the United States, which in turn would shape the Cold War...

In 2005, Vladimir Putin, starting his second term as president of the still-young Russian Federation, declared that the collapse of the Soviet Union was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the l...