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Applications are open for the Society’s Karl & Michael Polanyi Emerging Geoeconomists Cohort 2027. Explore the programme brochure and apply by 4 December 2026.
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The Hormuz crisis represents an ideal test of the latest research into the geoeconomics of global trade – as well as a source of insights for decision-makers in the business and policy spheres.
Global capital is entering a new phase in which financial returns are no longer the sole determinant of investment decisions. Mexico provides a revealing case of this transformation.
The Department of Defense is now the largest shareholder in America’s only integrated rare earth producer. The arrangement is less a rescue than a prototype. Firms and investors that still treat geopolitics as background noise will misread the market now taking shape.
Industrial policy has re-emerged as a central tool for policymakers and is increasingly justified in terms of national security. Beneath this securitised framing lies a more specific logic: state-led engineering of physical chokepoints.
The European Union has been seeking “Open Strategic Autonomy” in semiconductors. The Nexperia saga, in which China imposed export controls on European-made chips sent to China for testing and packaging, shows how Chinese dominance in the sector creates an overlooked technological chokepoint.
Vietnam is pushing its rare earth sector up the value chain, seeking to capture more value from its reserves rather than export raw materials. But reliance on foreign capital could constrain national development goals.
The West has pushed China’s cable champion out of allied projects, splitting the subsea cable industry into rival technology camps. But an ageing fleet of specialised ships determines how quickly damaged cables can be repaired.
Applications are open for the Society’s Karl & Michael Polanyi Emerging Geoeconomists Cohort 2027. Explore the programme brochure and apply by 4 December 2026.
30 November–2 December 2026 · Live online, with attendance in Singapore by invitation. Explore the programme and register for the inaugural Winter Conference.
The Annual Symposium on Financial Geoeconomics will explore the role of currencies, banking and financial infrastructure in shaping economic power.
The 2027 programme concludes in Singapore with the Winter Conference on Technological Capability and Industrial Dependence.
The Luxembourg symposium will examine how investors can protect capital in environments shaped by political intervention and strategic dependence.
