Applications are open for the Society’s Karl & Michael Polanyi Emerging Geoeconomists Cohort 2027. Explore the programme brochure and apply by 4 December 2026.
In a world fracturing along digital borders, states are weaponising strict regulatory barriers and export controls to shield their sovereign data from foreign extraction.
While critical minerals are geographically dispersed, the capabilities required to process and refine them remain highly concentrated in a small number of industrial ecosystems.
Financial interdependence amplified by the AML framework is leveraging power to define trusted, cleared, and connected players
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.
Geoeconomic leverage is an indispensable aspect of global politics and security in the 21st century, and scholars and statesmen should adjust accordingly.
