Chokepoints Reshape Power in a Fragmenting Maritime Global Order
May 5, 2026
The map of globalization has always been maritime, but the meaning of the sea is changing. Where once the oceans were imagined as connective tissue, frictionless corridors binding distant markets, they are now increasingly experienced as sites of pressure, delay and selective denial.
Sovereign Maritime Doctrine and the Reconfiguration of Control in the Strait of Hormuz
Apr 13, 2026
The transformation of maritime power in the twenty first century is no longer defined by the crude arithmetic of fleet size or the theatrical projection of naval supremacy. Instead, it is increasingly determined by the capacity of states to engineer layered systems of