Trade and Supply Chains

Analyzing the Eurocentric narrative that erased Ottoman Egypt’s role in global modernity through intellectual theft.

Exploring how the relentless pursuit of optimization in business can create catastrophic vulnerabilities, using the Boeing 737 MAX disaster as a cautionary tale.

A historical analysis of the resemblance between the US and Rome, and China and Carthage.

Examining how the formal end of empire left intact its underlying financial, legal, and cultural frameworks that continue to shape global inequalities today.

Analyzing how steam power, railways, and telegraphs transformed empire from coastal enclaves into continent-spanning systems of extraction and governance.

Investigating how the East India Company pioneered the corporate-state hybrid, enabling private profit-driven governance and extraction on an imperial scale.

Examining how the invention of credible public debt transformed war financing and enabled small nations to build world-spanning empires through securitized colonial wealth.

A critical analysis of how Europe's competitive fragmentation and imperial innovations created the modern global system of power, finance, and inequality.

Exploring how Europe's division into rival states created a pressure cooker of innovation that drove the development of systems capable of global domination.

A forensic investigation into the VOC's systematic destruction of the Banda Archipelago.