economics

Pragmatic needs and Ideological Solidarities: Why economic considerations will not end Taliban associations with terrorist groups

Jan Kosinski is a 3rd year BA student of History and War Studies mostly focusing his work on Islamism and Jihadism while writing his dissertation on the early history of al-Qaeda. Since the Taliban recaptured Kabul in August 2021, it has found itself in a similar position as before 2001: with terrorist groups on its…

The rise of a new geopolitical risk (Part One): China, the geopolitics of rare earths, and the European Union’s green energy transition

Maxime Sommerfeld Antoniou is a Master’s student in Geopolitics, Territory, and Security at King’s College London. His academic interests range from the geopolitics of rare earths to green industrial policies. Abstract: This article is the initial contribution to a series of three articles on the rising and intertwined importance of China, the geopolitics of rare…