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The work
Two bodies of work, one argument.
A research programme that specifies the mechanism, and a publication portfolio that tests it against
compute, capital, resources and institutions.
Research programme
Building structural power through ecosystem formation
Seven primary cases — the UAE, Saudi Arabia, India, Israel, Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore — trace
how non-hegemonic states orchestrate ecosystems rather than simply accumulate assets. Strategic
ecosystem orchestration is the analytical core: patient capital, partnership architecture, governance
concentration, performance discipline and infrastructure layers, governed deliberately.
Primary cases
7
Discipline
IR / IPE
Method
Comparative cases
Publication portfolio
Technology as strategic power
Long-form essays arguing that national advantage is shifting from territory, population and
industrial capacity toward control of the compute–data–energy stack and the capital that builds it.
Each essay carries one readable technical idea — process nodes, protein folding, Wright's law — so the
argument stays legible to a diplomat, an investor and an engineer at once.
Real power is setting the rules others operate inside. States can now do that by building indispensable
ecosystems rather than by owning every asset.
01
Partnership architecture
Deliberate selection of technology holders, allies and financiers, priced against credible alternatives.
02
Patient capital
Sovereign funds and state equity absorbing time horizons private capital will not hold.
03
Institutional orchestration
Governance concentration and performance discipline turning intent into repeatable execution.
04
Capability creation
Transfer converted into domestic capacity: talent pipelines, suppliers, infrastructure layers.
05
Lock-in
Indispensability at a step the system cannot skip, and the structural influence that follows.
The full theoretical specification uses five steps; the empirical chapters compress lock-in and structural
influence into a four-step observable sequence for comparative tractability.
Case architecture
Same mechanism, different institutional configurations.
Industrial, innovation, strategic-coordination, hybrid and mature ecosystems are treated as pathways
through one underlying mechanism — including where it fails.
United Arab Emirates
Rule-setting through partnership
Sovereign wealth and the compute stack used to make the state a shareholder in the technologies it hosts.
Saudi Arabia
Boundary case
The fabrication push marks where hedging reduces leverage under export controls and technology-holder constraints.
India
Infrastructure rails
Public digital rails and a technical talent pipeline as slow, compounding sources of position.
Israel
Security-linked innovation
A founder pipeline manufactured by institutions rather than inherited from market conditions.
Taiwan
Concentration
Fabrication depth as a chokepoint that is built, not found — and the vulnerability that comes with it.
South Korea
Coordinated upgrading
State–conglomerate coordination sustaining capability under alliance and market constraint.
Singapore
Mature ecosystem
Orchestration through institutional quality where scale was never available.
Comparator
Multipolarity as condition
Rival-pole alternatives are priced inside the mechanism: credible drift can raise bargaining leverage, or destroy it.
Speaking
The argument, out loud.
“What if the states quietly winning aren't the biggest, but the ones the world can't function without?”
I speak to investment committees, policy audiences, universities and conferences on strategic capitalism:
how capital allocation became statecraft, where the chokepoints actually sit, and what it takes to build an
ecosystem others cannot route around. Talks are built to the room, from a keynote to a closed-door briefing.
Keynotes
Thirty to forty-five minutes on the shift from territory and industrial scale to control of the
compute–data–energy stack, with the case evidence carried throughout.
Conferences and summits
Investor briefings
Closed sessions on sovereign wealth, state co-investment and the dependency map — where public capital
is moving, and what it means for allocation.
Funds and family offices
Seminars and panels
Teaching-length sessions on the mechanism itself, from partnership architecture through patient capital
to lock-in, with room for argument.
A four-essay arc moving from the theory of technological advantage to the institutions and private
capital that build it. Every essay is published here in full.
A strategic chokepoint without local decision rights or equity is dependency, not structural power. The
series pairs a joint United States–Puerto Rico security sovereign fund with a San Juan–Abu Dhabi
partnership for locally owned strategic infrastructure: energy and grid resilience first, then pharma,
chips, advanced manufacturing and a bounded defence mandate.
Washington invests as a co-owner rather than a donor; Puerto Rican citizens hold equity through supplier,
workforce and ownership structures. Prosperity becomes part of the security architecture rather than a
side effect of it.
The theory has a working implementation. What began as a rare-earth leverage prototype is now a
five-layer public platform that treats chokepoints, dependencies, ecosystems, leverage events and
scenarios as first-class objects — not as a neutral map of adjacency.
01Knowledge graph. Shared objects for dependencies, chokepoints and ecosystems.
02Strategic playbooks. Repeatable moves drawn from the case record.
03Decision lenses. Functional views for capital, security and industrial policy.
04Publications. The essay and case work, wired to the graph.
05Plain-language guide. The framework, without the apparatus.
Researcher and writer on international political economy.
I work in international relations and international political economy. My research develops strategic
capitalism: an account of how non-hegemonic states construct structural power by orchestrating strategic
ecosystems through partnerships, capital, institutions, technology transfer, capability creation and
lock-in.
The framework extends Susan Strange's insight that real power lies in setting the rules others operate
inside, and positions ecosystem building as construction within the United States-led order rather than
autonomous counter-hegemonic construction or passive dependency. It also carries a constraint: integration
produces distributional losses, so any serious ecosystem strategy has to specify how the losers
participate and how democratic legitimacy survives.
Alongside the research I write an essay portfolio on technology as strategic power, speak on the argument
to investors, policymakers and universities, and build a decision platform that puts the framework to
work.
Work
Research, long-form writing, and speaking on strategic capitalism
Fields
International political economy · Structural power · Sovereign wealth · Semiconductors and critical minerals · Defence and security policy
Regions
The Gulf · South and East Asia · The Caribbean and Latin America
To book a talk, commission writing, collaborate on the case work, or request access to the platform. For
speaking enquiries, a note on the audience, date and format is enough to start.
