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5 issues to watch for 2017 in the Muslim World
Conventional wisdom expects a regional war to spark an inflationary oil spike. Instead, global capital is pricing in a massive demand destruction event, marking a structural shift in how markets value geopolitical risk and energy security.
10 Jul 2026
Emerging markets are weaponising their breadbaskets to create a new form of mutuality. This agricultural interdependence now functions as a modern deterrent, forcing great powers to calculate the cost of disruption through the lens of domestic stability.
25 Jun 2026
As industrial policy shifts from trade facilitation to technocratic survival, the global hierarchy is no longer determined by labour costs or resource wealth, but by the strategic density of sovereign compute.
14 Jun 2026
The era of frictionless trade is over. As geopolitics reclaim primacy over economics, the world is fracturing into two distinct, competing spheres. It is a transition from efficiency to resilience that changes the price of everything.
15 Nov 2025
The Global South has abandoned the pursuit of ideological blocks. By leveraging competition between Washington and Beijing for critical minerals and digital infrastructure, a new class of 'swing states' is securing unprecedented sovereign leverage.
1 Nov 2025
As the West races to electrify and the East expands its industrial base, the global scramble for raw materials is creating a new hierarchy of power. The real victors are not the miners, but the logistical bottlenecks.
15 Jul 2025
