The energy transition is not dissolving geopolitical risk — it is redistributing it. This course examines how fossil fuel dependencies are giving way to new vulnerabilities in electricity grids, LNG infrastructure, and clean energy supply chains. We map the emerging resource order, identify the states positioned to gain or lose, and assess how energy security concerns are reshaping foreign policy across the major powers.
The energy transition is not dissolving geopolitical risk — it is redistributing it. This course examines how fossil fuel dependencies are giving way to new vulnerabilities in electricity grids, LNG infrastructure, and clean energy supply chains. We map the emerging resource order, identify the states positioned to gain or lose, and assess how energy security concerns are reshaping foreign policy across the major powers.
The energy transition is not dissolving geopolitical risk — it is redistributing it. This course examines how fossil fuel dependencies are giving way to new vulnerabilities in electricity grids, LNG infrastructure, and clean energy supply chains. We map the emerging resource order, identify the states positioned to gain or lose, and assess how energy security concerns are reshaping foreign policy across the major powers.
State-owned investment vehicles now control trillions of dollars in assets spanning ports, technology companies, agricultural land, and media. This briefing examines how sovereign wealth funds serve as extensions of national strategy — acquiring influence, securing resources, and projecting soft power. We profile the major players from Norway to Abu Dhabi to Singapore, and ask how recipient countries should think about screening these investments.
Headlines about de-dollarisation regularly oscillate between panic and dismissal. This course cuts through the noise to examine what is actually changing in the international monetary system — and what is not. We assess the rise of bilateral currency arrangements, the BRICS payment initiatives, and central bank reserve diversification, situating these trends against the structural reasons dollar dominance has proved so resilient.
Dollar dominance gives the United States a tool without historical precedent: the ability to cut adversaries off from the global financial system with the stroke of a pen. This briefing examines how sanctions, correspondent banking, and SWIFT exclusion function as instruments of statecraft. We assess the limits of financial coercion, the conditions under which it works, and the long-term costs of wielding it too freely.
The green energy transition and the AI boom share a common dependency: a small set of critical minerals concentrated in a handful of countries. This course traces how control over lithium, cobalt, neodymium, and others is reshaping alliances, supply chains, and industrial policy. We examine China’s dominant position, Western efforts to diversify, and the geopolitical consequences of the race to secure these materials.
Singapore, Qatar, Switzerland — small states have repeatedly demonstrated an ability to wield influence far exceeding what their size or military power would suggest. This briefing analyses the strategic tools available to smaller nations: niche positioning, alliance management, economic specialisation, and soft power. We draw lessons from the most successful cases and ask what distinguishes durable small-state influence from fleeting advantage.
Over 80% of global trade travels by sea, making maritime routes a central theatre of great-power competition. This course maps the world’s critical sea lanes and the naval powers, piracy networks, and geopolitical rivalries that threaten or protect them. Participants will come away with a clear framework for understanding how control of the seas translates into economic and strategic power.
