Despite its small size and isolation, Diego Garcia hosts a joint UK-US military facility that supports American power projection across three continents. We will analyze its location, history, operational capabilities, recent diplomatic developments, and why it remains essential for US national security in 2026.

El 3 de enero de 2026, fuerzas especiales de EE.UU. irrumpieron en Caracas y capturaron al presidente Nicolás Maduro y a su esposa Cilia Flores en una operación quirúrgica que cambió el tablero regional para siempre.

¿Qué significa esto para Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, China y Rusia? Analizamos el fin de una era chavista, el precedente de intervención directa en el hemisferio, el impacto en el narcotráfico y los escenarios de caos o transición que se abren.

In our season finale, we sail straight into the future of Arctic navigation with the Transpolar Sea Route—the boldest, shortest path across the top of the world. Unlike the coastal Northern Sea Route hugging Russia's shores or the intricate Northwest Passage through Canada's archipelago, the Transpolar Route cuts directly over the North Pole, linking the Atlantic and Pacific across the high seas in international waters.

Michele Fiorini, a Global Business Consultant, shares his insights with us about the challenges and opportunities of the Transpolar Sea Route (TSR) in geopolitics and global trade.

En este episodio de la temporada relacionada al Ártico exploramos por qué Groenlandia, la isla más grande del mundo, se convirtió en el centro de una nueva competencia geopolítica: deshielo acelerado, minerales estratégicos y la disputa entre Estados Unidos, Rusia y China por el control del Ártico.

As the ice melts, a single railway from Finland to the Arctic Ocean is becoming the new geopolitical fault line. The Arctic Railway Project.

Juho Kähkönen researcher in International Relations and International Law at the University of Lapland in Finland, and a fellow at the Belfer Center here at Harvard University, reveals what is the Arctic Railway Project is, the role of the indigenous Sámi communities are all fighting over one stretch of track — and how these steel rails could decide who controls the future of the High North.

In this new episode, we'll focus on the Arctic Council, the crucial cooperation forum for this region.

Our guest is Svein Vigeland Rottem, senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. He's an expert on security, governance, and the Arctic Council.

We'll analyze the importance of the Arctic Council, its leadership, the challenges it faces, the pause in its operations in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and why the region must maintain its geopolitical leadership and collaboration among the eight member states.

This episode is part of a full season dedicated to the Arctic.

In this five-episode season, we'll focus on the Arctic: a region of increasing strategic geopolitical competition, with enormous potential in terms of resources, shipping routes, and profound environmental changes.

In this first episode, we talk with Serafima Andreeva, a researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway's leading research institute on Arctic international affairs.

Her work and research interests are primarily in governance and Arctic geopolitical dynamics, with a focus on analyzing geopolitical tensions.

In this episode, we'll discuss misconceptions about the Arctic and the realities shaping its future.

For this episode, we have as a co-host Andrey Todorov, a researcher and professor at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea and an expert in Arctic topics.

Uno de los estrechos con más oportunidades en el mundo es sin duda alguna el estrecho de Magallanes, una ruta estratégica en el extremo sur de Latino América para el comercio internacional y un punto clave para acceder a la Antártida.

En este episodio nos acompaña Sebastian Shulz, investigador en geopolítica y profesor de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata en Argentina. Es además el autor del artículo ¿Por qué el estrecho de Magallanes es un paso estratégico en disputa? publicado en TRT en español:

Abordamos el contexto histórico, comercial y geopolítico del Estrecho de Magallanes.