Faridul Alam

A literary geopolitical essay tracing how war in Iran becomes a recursive quest for symbolic control and meaning.

AI-driven warfare is accelerating military judgment while eroding ethical hesitation, reflective oversight, and human moral authority.

A quip about language reveals deeper histories of empire, translation, and the myth of linguistic inevitability

Global power transitions from the age of oil to electrons, defining a dual world order of entanglement.

US containment strategies risk strategic inversion, unintentionally accelerating global production networks that reinforce China’s deep industrial centrality.

The Iran conflict underscores the inadequacy of conventional strategic frameworks, revealing the indeterminacy, oscillation, and systemic interdependence that define contemporary warfare.

To speak of Generation Z today is to confront a cohort caught in what might be called a historical compression chamber. Born in the afterlife of grand narratives yet compelled to endure their violent returns, Gen Z inhabits a present that is neither stable nor self-contained.

Today, however, the global economy is increasingly multipolar. Manufacturing capacity, technological development, and financial influence are distributed across several major centres rather than concentrated within a single hegemonic order.