Architecture of Power: How Modern Empires Hide in Plain Sight
Financial networks, military alliances, digital systems and historical memory form the architecture of modern power.
Geopolitics is rarely decided by events. It is decided by the architecture beneath them: NATO's eastward expansion, Russia and China cast as the designated adversaries, and Iran at the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint that prices every crisis. These chapters trace the energy corridors, sanctions regimes and strategic competition that outlast whoever holds office.