Geopolitics

More than 70 countries have now built border barriers. This final post argues that the 21st-century age of walls is not a new crisis — it is the overdue reckoning of a century of cartographic violence.

The Radcliffe Line divided India and Pakistan in 36 days; the 38th Parallel divided Korea in an afternoon. Both cuts were made by outsiders, both ignored geographic reality, and both wounds remain unhealed.

How British diplomat Sir Mark Sykes and his French counterpart François Georges-Picot created the modern Middle East in a single secret agreement — and why that agreement still bleeds.

The Berlin Conference of 1884, where fourteen European powers drew straight lines through a continent they had never mapped. The consequences are still being counted.

Five posts tracing how colonial powers drew borders that ignored geographic logic — and how the resulting fractures still drive war, displacement, and the global age of walls.

Establishes the foundational argument: terrain, rivers, and climate are the original authors of political order. Without understanding these rules, we cannot understand the crime of ignoring them.

Exploring the origins of networks in ancient empires.

A critical analysis of how the green energy transition is creating new forms of concentrated power across minerals, technology, capital, geopolitics, and social inequality.

Exploring the origins of networks in ancient empires.