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🔹 AI & Leadership – How artificial intelligence is reshaping leadership, decision-making, and influence in the corporate and political arenas. AI is no longer a support system; it’s a co-pilot in governance and strategy.

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🔹 The Post-Work Economy – As automation displaces traditional jobs, we must rethink the very foundation of work, value, and economic stability. Universal Basic Income (UBI), decentralized economic models, and AI-driven labor markets are no longer theoretical—they are inevitable. The question is: How do we make them work?

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Strategic Resilience & Crisis Management

The Northeast and Northwest Passages in global trade

Opportunities, risks and geopolitical dynamics of a melting world region.

Executive Summary

The Northeast and Northwest Passage in global trade: Opportunities, risks and geopolitical dynamics of a melting world region

The Arctic is at the tipping point of global infrastructure development. As the ice melts continue, the Northeast Passage (NSR) along the Russian coast and, in the future, the Northwest Passage (NWP) through the Canadian archipelago are gaining massive geopolitical and economic importance. The NSR in particular will develop into a reliably seasonally usable route between Europe and Asia as early as the 2030s - with potential savings of up to one million US dollars per transit. At the same time, a new strategic coordinate system is emerging: Russia is consolidating its influence on Svalbard, the USA is establishing Greenland as a hub for military and digital infrastructure. The Arctic is thus becoming an operational extension of existing great power conflicts - not abstractly, but concretely visible in ports, fishing fleets and fiber optic cables.

The economic usability of the Arctic sea routes remains highly differentiated. While the NSR is becoming increasingly attractive for project-based bulk freight transport, the NWP remains a strategic future project for the time being due to climatic, legal and logistical hurdles. At the same time, infrastructural reinforcement areas are being created along the new trade axes - such as Kirkenes, Finnafjörður or Barentsburg - whose control will in future extend far beyond logistical relevance. The legal order, however, remains incomplete: important passages are subject to competing sovereignty claims. Without international agreement, there is a risk of an increase in legal gray areas - with subsequent economic, ecological and security policy costs.

The ecological price remains high. The development of the Arctic is both a symptom and a driver of climate change. Without robust governance, binding emissions standards and regionally anchored protection regimes, fragile ecosystems could be irreversibly damaged - with global feedback effects.

Core recommendation:
The international community must act now. A coordinated Arctic strategy that combines technological modernization, economic resilience and geopolitical de-escalation is required. Without this regulatory framework, the Arctic will not become the new trade hub - but rather the next strategic conflict zone in the multipolar world order.

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The End of NATO - Understanding the Shift and the Future of Global Alliances

Is NATO’s Era Coming to an End? The Rise of a New Global Order

For decades, NATO has been the backbone of Western security, but recent geopolitical shifts suggest the alliance may be facing its most profound existential challenge. As the U.S. distances itself from traditional allies and softens its stance towards Russia, a new strategic realignment is taking shape—one that could reshape the global power structure for the 21st century.

Our latest analysis explores the factors driving America’s recalibrated foreign policy, the emergence of a new alliance replacing NATO as a Northern Hemisphere security and economic bloc, and the increasing divide between the Global North and South. With control over Arctic trade routes, rare earth elements, and artificial intelligence dominance at stake, alliances are shifting not based on ideology but on strategic necessity.

What does this mean for Europe, the United States, and the future of global stability? Could NATO dissolve in favor of a new power structure? Read the full report to uncover the forces shaping the next era of international relations.

Read the full paper here