China’s warning to President Irro has exposed Somaliland’s growing place in global power competition. Berbera’s strategic position,...
Global Power Geopolitics
Great-power rivalry in a strategic region
Examination of how global and Middle Eastern powers compete, cooperate, and project influence across the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.
Israel and Türkiye’s geopolitical competition is no longer confined to Gaza, Syria or the Eastern Mediterranean. From...
The Makkah Pact remains militarily untested, but it is already changing strategic calculations. Some countries are preparing...
What role does Somaliland play in the rapidly changing geopolitics of the Red Sea?
In this Hargeisa Debates...
Somaliland’s exclusion from formal recognition is not simply the byproduct of legal complexity or respect for Somalia’s...
The central argument of the article is straightforward but powerful: Britain’s hesitation is helping China increase its...
Unlike the Cold War model where ideology dominated alliances, today’s geopolitical alignments are increasingly transactional. Somaliland offers...
Türkiye’s defense of Somali unity emerges as a strategic effort to preserve accumulated leverage in one of...
At the center of this effort is Michael Lotem, Israel’s newly appointed ambassador. His role extends beyond...
The Dragon may continue to roar loudly as usual. But in Hargeisa and Taipei, the reply is...