Geoeconomic Fluency for Executive Boards: Navigating Investment Screening

For Chief Strategy Officers and multinational executive boards, geoeconomic risk has become a core transactional metric. As the international investment order fractures, governments are unwilling to leave market outcomes to chance, particularly where diffuse control over critical assets exposes them to jurisdictional capture. Instead of predictable, rules-based regulation, policymakers are embracing a model of "discretionary state capitalism" driven by national security imperatives. By subordinating market efficiency to geopolitical priorities, governments are structurally inflating the costs of operating distributed corporate architectures across rival jurisdictions.