Tag: Pascal Lottaz

A contribution by Nel Bonilla.

If you’ve arrived here via my recent interview on Neutrality Studies with Pascal Lottaz—thank you. I’m deeply grateful for your interest in these issues, which, unfortunately, grow more urgent by the day.

A few words about me and what to expect from Worldlines:

My training in human geography, migration studies, and sociology informs my analysis of how systems, not just individuals (although individuals are part of this, too, but mostly as part of larger groups), shape global power constellations. I study elite networks, structural and organized violence, and the hidden machinery of geopolitics, sometimes with a focus on how institutions engineer loyalty and conflict.

At Worldlines, I examine the largely invisible architecture of contemporary geopolitics, the circuitry beneath it, through, for example:

🔹 Elite Strategy: The institutions, foundations, and revolving-door careers that convert private capital into public policy.

🔹 How Conflict Gets Designed: Why terms like ‘strategic ambiguity’ and ‘multi-domain warfare’ are descriptive words of blueprints for endless escalation and certainly not about resolving conflicts.

🔹 Structural Continuities: The persistent hegemonic logic linking Cold War containment to today’s “great power competition” with all its human and political consequences.

My aim is not to follow headlines, but to understand the long-term processes that drive them. Occasionally, I’ll respond to specific news events, but always through a structural lens.

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Suggested Entry Points
Here are a few pieces to begin with, depending on your interests:

• Elite Capture & European Self-Destruction
  Why transatlantic networks keep pushing EU policy against its own interests. And specifically, why Germany’s energy poverty and rearmament policies are almost engineered outcomes.
• The Transatlantic Split Myth
  The EU’s ‘autonomy’ debates, explained: Why ‘rifts’ between the U.S. and Europe are mostly theater.
• The Plan for U.S. Drone Strikes in Mexico
  A look at how nominally neutral countries are targeted in the unipolar–multipolar standoff.
• Tariffs as Siege Engines
  What the tariff war on China reveals about long-term U.S. strategy.
• Transatlantic Convergence: Peace or Dormant NATO?
  How Europe is being retooled for war under a new operational doctrine.
• The Geopolitical Theater: Trump, NATO, and the Road to 2028
  Signs that escalation is not an accident, but rather part of a deliberate and staged continuum.
• Why Do Governing Elites Support Harmful Policies?
  An exploration of systemic, ideological, and institutional pressures on elite decision-making.

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Forthcoming
I’m currently developing a new long-form piece under the working title:
“Weaponizing Time & Uncertainty”
It examines how strategic ambiguity is employed to prolong instability, suggesting that global permanent tension is the intended outcome. Of course, this will be explained and laid out in much more detail.

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A note on rhythm and timing
I’m in the final phase of my PhD dissertation, so major essays appear around every three weeks for now. Once the thesis is submitted, I’ll publish more frequently and include Q&As, research tips, and behind-the-scenes posts. These are historic times, and I believe they warrant a careful and critical record.

In any case, I’m especially eager to hear from you, dear readers, how does this analysis resonate with your context (wherever you are in the world)? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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