The Networks of Ascent - Part 1: The First Highways: Rivers, Roads, and the Anatomy of an Empire18 April 2020·981 words·5 minsSystems and Innovation Trade and Supply Chains Military and Logistics Systems Thinking Historical Case Studies
Beyond the Flat World - Part 7: Competing in the Regionalized World: Why Isolation Breeds Stagnation and Partnerships Promise Prosperity3 March 2020·940 words·5 minsHistory and Critical Analysis USMCA Regional-Advantage Isolationism Standards-Setting Infrastructure Akron Trade and Supply Chains
Beyond the Flat World - Part 6: The Next Battleground: How 5G, Robots, and Digital Consumers Are Deepening Regional Economic Advantage2 March 2020·1086 words·6 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Smart-Manufacturing Industrial Policy 5G-Network Middle-Class-Asia Regional-Advantage Trade and Supply Chains
Beyond the Flat World - Part 5: The Reluctant Triangle: Why NAFTA Couldn't Fully Integrate the U.S., Canada, and Mexico1 March 2020·1113 words·6 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Trade-Agreements Supply-Chains-North-America China-Shock Border-Security Auto-Alley Trade-Disputes Trade and Supply Chains
Beyond the Flat World - Part 4: Factory Asia: The Invisible Supply Chains Built by Flying Geese, Conglomerates, and Cash (Not Handshakes)29 February 2020·1164 words·6 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Flying-Geese Japan China-Rise Asian-Tigers Keiretsu FDI Trade and Supply Chains
Beyond the Flat World - Part 3: From Coal to Currency: How Europe Engineered a $17 Trillion Neighborhood Economy Through Treaties and Trust28 February 2020·1036 words·5 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Treaty-of-Rome Single-European-Act Euro Brexit Regional-Integration Trade and Supply Chains
Beyond the Flat World - Part 2: Shipping Containers, Satellites, and SWIFT: The Paradoxical Technology That Made Neighbors Stronger Than Distant Partners27 February 2020·1354 words·7 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Shipping-Containers Fiber-Optics SWIFT-Network Global-Value-Chains Economic-Geography Trade and Supply Chains
Beyond the Flat World - Part 1: The Hidden Geography of Commerce: Why Globalization Is a Myth and Regionalism Is the Reality26 February 2020·1360 words·7 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Trade-Wars Supply Chains Economic-Hubs NAFTA European-Union Asia-Manufacturing Trade and Supply Chains
Sacred Profits - Part 5: When Systems Speak Louder Than Saints18 September 2019·1928 words·10 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Crusades Systems Power Institutions Historical Case Studies Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Trade and Supply Chains
Sacred Profits - Part 4: From Jerusalem to Manila17 September 2019·2744 words·13 minsHistory and Critical Analysis Crusades Colonialism Islam Theory Historical Case Studies Policy and Critique Systems Thinking Trade and Supply Chains
