Master the new grammar of power

If you're reading this, you're probably already aware that the frameworks you were trained on — the ones built around WTO rules, comparative-advantage logic, and the assumption of a basically stable multilateral order — are no longer sufficient. You can feel it in the work: in the briefings that don't quite capture what's actually driving a trade dispute, in the strategic recommendations that treat economic coercion as an aberration rather than a design choice, in the gap between the policy vocabulary you have and the policy environment you're operating in.

That gap is what Geoeconomics Edge was built to close.

I designed this curriculum for the professionals I most respect: the ones who are intellectually serious, who want rigorous frameworks rather than talking points, and who are operating in environments where the cost of a wrong analysis is real. The program doesn't simplify the world to make it more comfortable. It gives you the conceptual architecture to engage its full complexity — and then make better decisions inside it.

What you'll find here is a structured, sequential build. We start with the collapse of the liberal consensus, not because it's history but because understanding exactly how it failed tells you precisely what the new power-based logic replaced and why. We move through every major instrument of geoeconomic statecraft — sanctions, investment screening, export controls, infrastructure financing — with careful attention to second-order effects, because a tool you can't model past its first-order impact is a tool you'll misuse. We work through the specific strategic predicament of mid-sized powers in detail, because that is where the most consequential and underanalyzed decisions are being made right now.

I want to be direct about what this is not. It is not a survey of the geoeconomics literature. It is not a set of slides you can skim before a meeting. It is a practitioner's operating manual, written at the level of density and precision that the subject demands — and that you, I'd wager, have been looking for. The case studies are real, the frameworks are diagnostic, and the capstone asks you to do the hardest thing in strategy: synthesize analysis into a concrete recommendation under genuine uncertainty.

If you are ready to upgrade your mental model of how power actually works in the global economy — and to have the tools to act on that understanding — this is where that work begins. I look forward to working through it with you.