Author name: Santiago H. Pereira Testa

For more than a century, harbor pilots were considered indispensable for commercial navigation in the Río de la Plata. In times of incomplete nautical charts, unreliable communications, frequent fog and limited navigation instruments, it seemed logical that a foreign captain would depend on a local specialist to safely enter complex ports such as Montevideo or

Not all collapses begin with weakness.Some emerge precisely at the moment when power feels most certain of itself.The current global landscape reflects that pattern.It is not merely a conflict between actors.It is an accumulation of decisions driven by a shared assumption.That limits have been surpassed.The figure of Icarus offers a precise lens to understand this

Not all historical transformations begin with visible conflicts.Some emerge silently, almost imperceptibly, until they completely alter the existing balance.The current global scenario appears to be going through one of those moments.Not necessarily defined by confrontation among actors, but by something deeper.The emergence of new forms of knowledge.The figure of Prometeo offers a precise key to

Fear of change drives today’s global system to undermine its own future. There are moments in history when uncertainty does not arise from a lack of information, but from the inability to interpret what is already unfolding.The current global scenario seems to follow that logic.It is not that the world lacks direction.It is that those

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Economy, power and the new strategic realism in the West Munich and the End of Strategic Naivety The immediate temptation was to read Marco Rubio’s speech at the Munich Security Conference as a rhetorical knockout. A forceful, disruptive intervention, even uncomfortable for part of the European audience. But the point is not the stage impact.