National Data Pools as Strategic Assets in the Sovereign AI Race
In a world fracturing along digital borders, states are weaponising strict regulatory barriers and export controls to shield their sovereign data from foreign extraction.
Manufacturing Dependence: The Politics of Processing
While critical minerals are geographically dispersed, the capabilities required to process and refine them remain highly concentrated in a small number of industrial ecosystems.
Anti-Money Laundering in an Era of Geoeconomic Competition
Financial interdependence amplified by the AML framework is leveraging power to define trusted, cleared, and connected players
Capital Under Command: How Investment Screening Became Statecraft
Ports are where the argument about chokepoints begins. Yet steel is not a port, and neither is a chipmaker, an app, or a tyre-maker. Each sector stands on the same ground: ownership is no longer the markets to settle alone.
Back to the Jungle: Chokepoints and Leverage in an Anarchic world
Geoeconomic leverage is an indispensable aspect of global politics and security in the 21st century, and scholars and statesmen should adjust accordingly.