Cloud providers are no longer competing solely on scale and efficiency, but on their ability to navigate infrastructure geopolitics. Resilience and sovereignty-conscious design are becoming critical sources of advantage.
Recent developments in the digital economy point to a measurable shift in how technological power is organised. Two patterns are particularly visible: the rapid expansion of state investment in sovereign
Singapore’s model of “sovereignty arbitrage” demonstrates how states can maximise agency by navigating, rather than escaping, asymmetric systems of digital interdependence.
The Helsinki Geoeconomics Society enters its first fully operational cycle with the launch of Basket I: International Economic Security Regulation and Governance.
In an era of geopolitical contestation, markets are increasingly shaped by security imperatives, state power, and the politics of technological dominance.
The era of the “retreating state” is over. Firms are increasingly judged not only by market performance, but by their strategic alignment with national security priorities.
As governments race to secure control over strategically vital technologies, chip supply chains are being reorganized around national security rather than market efficiency.
The dollar still dominates global finance, but its once-assumed neutrality is beginning to erode as geopolitics reshapes access to the world’s financial infrastructure. Rather than abandoning the dollar, states are building safeguards against overdependence.
