regional analysis
Par parti pris · 3 takes across the edition
Sets the energy centre against Turkey's new maritime-jurisdiction bill, reading both as competing legal facts on the water — Ankara asserting an extended continental shelf as Athens and Nicosia lock in the US-Israel partnership.
“A new Turkey maritime draft bill fuels East-Med tensions with Greece and Cyprus.”
Analyses conviction prospects and the entanglement with ICC warrants against Duterte allies (incl. Senator dela Rosa), arguing the trial is as much a contest over the 2028 succession as over Sara Duterte's conduct.
“The trial is a battle over 2028 as much as Sara Duterte's conduct, complicated by ICC warrants reaching into the Senate that will judge her.”
Charts Petro's late-term polling rebound (a soldier pay rise among the drivers), recasting the lame duck as a still-potent opposition figure as the left regroups for the post-Petro era.
“The resurgence of Gustavo Petro and the Colombian left.”