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Geopolitical Power Map
Power doesn’t move at the speed of headlines. This dashboard tracks the slower, more durable shifts.
Most geopolitical coverage is reactive — what blew up this week, who said what about whom. The Power Map is the inverse: a slow-moving lattice of alignments, supplier agreements, and resource corridors that takes months to shift but reshapes the next decade when it does.
I update this weekly. The visualization above is a simplification of the real model, which tracks roughly 140 actor-pairs across six dimensions. Members get the full graph.
Headline Metrics
Active alignments tracked
▲ +6 this month
Corridors monitored
▲ +1 (Red Sea)
Supplier dependencies flagged
▼ -3 resolved
Mean alignment age
▲ +0.3 yrs
Watchlist
What I’m tracking now
Saudi-Israel normalization
Economic pre-alignment now ahead of political.
Turkey hedging posture
NATO + Eurasia balance unusually stable this quarter.
Egypt sovereign debt
Watch the next IMF tranche.
Iran proxy network
Battered but not collapsing. Decision-making more erratic.
Recent Signals
What just moved
May 22, 2026
New corridor agreement (Red Sea)
Three-party logistics MoU quietly signed. Reshapes shipping insurance pricing for the next cycle.
May 09, 2026
Gulf compute alignment
Two sovereign data center procurement contracts finalized. Compute is the new sovereign asset.
Apr 28, 2026
EU export-control update
Lithography line items expanded. Downstream effects in 18-24 months.
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