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Technology & AI
AI, infrastructure, and cyber power in the Middle East
How war, frontier computing, and offensive cyber operations are reshaping the region’s security environment.
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Analysis
Geopolitics & regional strategy
Ceuta, football and the politics of indirect signaling
What Spain’s response reveals about power below the NATO threshold.
Essay
Technology & AI
Borrowed authority: how a single word from an AI can shape what people believe
A language model can know that one source outranks another without any mechanism that makes the authoritative source win. When an AI calls an argument “the strongest,” it may only mean the argument is common — and the gap between knowing a hierarchy and applying one is where borrowed authority lives.
Policy brief
Geopolitics & regional strategy
Closing an anomaly: Ceuta, historical reality, and the future of the Euro-African border
The late-July 2026 surge into Ceuta was treated as a sudden migration emergency. That framing is incomplete. A European territorial enclave still sits on the African mainland, and demographic pressure will only intensify.
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Economy & enterprise
Growth without hiring
Morocco is growing. The labour market is not. The missing link is the marginal formal hire inside the firms that make up 93–95% of the enterprise base — a bet most owners rationally refuse.
Policy brief
Economy & enterprise
Unused exemptions and the formal SME
Reductions and exemptions already exist in Moroccan law. The companies that remain formal often never hear of them — and so never use them.
Analysis
Technology & AI
Empty public posts and responsible automation
Important positions in the administration stay vacant for lack of funds. Whether automation can close part of that gap remains largely unexamined.