Mohanned M. Al-Arabiat

A political analyst and writer specializing in strategy, strategic communications and crisis management. His work explores the narratives shaping political and social dynamics, with a focus on governance, identity politics and preventing violent extremism. Using context analysis and participatory research, he examines how communication strategies influence policy and public perception. His writing engages with the intersections of politics, security and social cohesion. He holds a doctorate in information sciences and a master’s in social justice and community development. He currently teaches at Princess Sumaya University.
Commentaries

Digital Sovereignty Turns Inward: Why states that cannot govern the machines end up governing their own people

Digital sovereignty is one phrase hiding two different things. Few who invoke it say which one they mean. The first kind is declared. A state passes a law, forms a committee, issues a directive, and announces that its digital space is “governed.” This kind of sovereignty is available to everyone. Any state can have it. The second kind is built.…

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Washington’s Fight with Anthropic: What it Means for the Rest of Us

Colonialism had a clear method. Take the land. Extract the raw material. Send the value home. Govern just enough to keep that value-extraction pipeline open. The data economy works the same way: Take something from people before they understand they are giving it away. Turn it into power. Sell it back to them as a “service.” The raw material used…

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Platforms in Budapest, Bombs in Tehran: The New Interventionism- and what it means for Jordan

On the evening of April 7, 2026, the United States Vice President stood on a stage in a Budapest football stadium and told Hungarians how to vote. JD Vance — who had arrived in the Hungarian capital declaring he was there to “help as much as I possibly can” — worked through an Orbán campaign rally, called Trump live on…

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The Algorithm Is the Weapon

The contemporary geopolitical landscape is undergoing a profound structural transformation driven by the maturation of what is best understood as digitized capitalism. In this emerging paradigm, traditional market dynamics and democratic processes are being replaced by platform-based economies, generating the rapid accumulation of unprecedented wealth and power among a new class of technological elite-Digital Lords. This class now commands vast…

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