Here Comes the Fun(ding) Police! Tracking Foreign Funding of U.S. Universities
American universities have become strategic targets in an era of intensifying competition with China. Universities concentrate advanced research, train future scientific and technical elites, and generate knowledge with direct military and civilian applications. Yet despite higher education’s importance to national
Global Health Challenges During the Trump Administration
In the months since President Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House in January 2025, his administration has pursued sweeping changes to U.S. health and foreign policy. Many of these moves echo the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint—a conservative
Let The Sunshine In? Opening the Blinds on the Australian Transparency Framework
The geopolitical challenges of the 21st century, particularly the rise of digital disinformation and covert attempts at political influence, have forced several countries to review their approach to foreign influence. I have previously described how this has manifested itself in
The Unfinished Nation: Constitutional Failure and Identity Crisis in Iran
Iran has produced constitutions with remarkable regularity, but never one that genuinely reckoned with its own diversity. This article traces the origins of Iran's constitutional identity crisis from the Qajar period to the present, trying to engage legal scholarship in
Sovereignty in a Multipolar Modern World: A Question of Law or a Question of Fact?
In the 21st century, the assessment of sovereignty is increasingly approached through resilience: the decisive factor is the capacity by which state institutions remain functional amid external shocks and threats, ensuring the implementability of decisions and a minimum of rule-of-law
Green Light(s) over Greenland? How do flares of annexation affect the self-determination of an island?
Greenland entered international spotlight due to the strong interest of the United States expressed by the Trump II administration in acquiring it, after being on the periphery of international relations for millennia. Currently, the green lights of the Aurora Borealis
Hold Companies & Nations Responsible For Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
Teaching the Virtues
David Hein’s 2025 book titled “Teaching the Virtues“ looks at the important topic of civic education and its priorities between building an “ academic mind“ or a moral character. Reforming civic education is a central question in the American youth
From Espionage to Influence: How Foreign Interference Shifted the Focus of UK National Security Law
Moving further from previous pieces published here on the topic of sovereignty protection regarding Hungary and the EU, an international comparison is now in order to see whether foreign influence is a real problem in other countries as well, and
The Constitutional Order of Moderate Welfare States: On the Threshold of a New Era?
Since Maslow, we have known that strong emotions — fear, anger, frustration — spread far more quickly than rational, calm dialogue. Today’s societies are dominated by social media algorithms designed to maximize attention (and thus profit), favoring divisive, emotionally charged