Month: February 2026

The Middle East has entered its most volatile phase in years as direct military confrontation involving Iran, Israel, and the United States threatens to redraw regional power dynamics and upend fragile diplomatic efforts. What had long simmered as a shadow war—marked by cyber operations, covert strikes, and proxy conflicts—has now erupted into overt state-to-state

Why a 20th-Century Diplomatic Model Is Failing 21st-Century Security Switzerland’s refusal to align with the European Union on designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation should not be analysed in isolation. It is the latest manifestation of a broader strategic failure: the inability of Swiss diplomacy to adapt to an