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4 articles tagged “geopolitics”.
History
The historical thread from grain and oil to rare earths and fresh water.
A survey of how competition over scarce material inputs has driven interstate conflict, and how abundance reframes the underlying logic.
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History
Lithium, cobalt, neodymium, gallium — the supply chains that replace oil as conflict surfaces.
The mineral chokepoints of the electrified economy, their role as conflict surfaces, and how atoms abundance could defuse or displace them.
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History
From Gulf tankers to European pipelines — and why distributed solar changes the map.
How control of energy production and transit has shaped conflict, and how distributed solar-plus-storage alters the strategic map.
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Geopolitics
Gas leverage, pipeline sabotage, and the accelerated European abundance response.
Post-2022 European energy politics — gas leverage, pipeline sabotage, accelerated renewables — as an abundance response to a scarcity shock.
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