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The club's daily geopolitics game opens: seven questions a day, any valid answer counts, and the rarer it is, the deeper the archive lift goes through a hundred rooms of history. Play today's file
Seventy years after the Suez war, how far the crisis ended Britain and France as world powers: their shares of world output, sterling, the loss of empire after 1956, and how the United States and the Soviet Union took the lead in the Middle East.
Yair Segal and Nicolas Centorame · 13 min readRead on LinkedIn
From a colonel's letter nine days after Hiroshima to the dissolution of the last committee in 1988: what official records show about Switzerland's plans, costs and votes on nuclear weapons, and why the programme never went beyond studies.
Yair Segal · 10 min readRead on LinkedIn
The data and code team opens the club's GitHub, for its own projects beside the reports.
Victor Sieber takes the Head seat for Macroeconomics and joins the data and code team.
How states have used private armed force from the East India Company to Russia's deployments in Mali, what is documented about how it is paid for, and how regulation such as the Swiss-led Montreux Document has responded.
Nicolas Centorame · 11 min readRead on LinkedIn
How states move people to put pressure on a rival or to build a nation, from the Belarus border crisis of 2021 back to the population exchange of 1923 and the Partition of India.
Yair Segal and Nicolas Centorame · 9 min readRead on LinkedIn
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Fifty billion tonnes a year, desert sand that cannot be used, islands dredged out of existence, and a trade that is two-thirds illegal.
Nicolas Centorame · 8 min readRead on LinkedIn
Almost all intercontinental data runs through a few hundred undersea cables, repaired by a small ageing fleet and protected by little law, seen through the anchor-dragging incidents in the Baltic and around Taiwan.
Nicolas Centorame · 9 min readRead on LinkedIn
IMF vessel-tracking data against the Brent price: a correlation of minus 0.74 that disappears when the sample is split in half.
Noah Vella · 12 min readRead on LinkedIn
Congo's cobalt export halt of February 2025 and four scenarios for the most exposed trader, half an hour from Zurich.
Yair Segal · 11 min readRead on LinkedIn
China's hold on rare earths rests on refining capacity that the West gave up decades ago. A new mine in Australia does not change that.
Nicolas Centorame · 10 min readRead on LinkedIn
A document signed in Istanbul in 2019 severed a bond of three centuries, and Moscow reacted as if it had lost territory.
Nicolas Centorame · 10 min readRead on LinkedIn
The WTO's appeals court lost its quorum in December 2019 and its last member left in November 2020. How one member blocked new appointments, what 'appealing into the void' means, and the interim arrangement that dozens of members built without the United States.
Nicolas Centorame · 9 min readRead on LinkedIn
Nitrogen comes from air and potassium from mines on every continent. Phosphorus cannot be synthesised, and about 70 per cent of the world's reserves lie under Morocco and occupied Western Sahara.
Nicolas Centorame · 9 min readRead on LinkedIn
One company now operates about two-thirds of all working satellites, under a treaty written in 1967. Spectrum filings, debris and rival blocs are now deciding who controls low-Earth orbit.
Nicolas Centorame · 15 min readRead on LinkedIn
More than a thousand shadow-fleet tankers sail under false or changing flags with unknown insurers. How the fleet works, how states respond, and what it means for oil markets and the law of the sea.
Nicolas Centorame · 20 min readRead on LinkedIn
High-purity quartz from Spruce Pine, Hurricane Helene and China's search for its own supply.
Nicolas Centorame · 11 min readRead on LinkedIn
A fertility rate of 0.72, digital gender conflict and the strategic cost of a shrinking population.
Noah Vella and Nicolas Centorame · 9 min readRead on LinkedIn
Why Hanoi deepens ties with Washington while preparing for the worst case, read through leaked military documents and the Spratly build-up.
Nicolas Centorame · 10 min readRead on LinkedIn
After the January 2026 intervention, 746,000 barrels a day that China paid for in yuan return to the dollar system. The case shows the limits of BRICS as a monetary bloc.
Noah Vella, Yair Segal and Nicolas Centorame · 5 min readRead on LinkedIn
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