Strature Advisory · The three domains

Three domains, read together, for one organisation.

Geopolitical, geoeconomic and geotechnology advisory. States and their alignments; trade, capital and sanctions; chips, AI, data and the controls around them. Read apart, each domain misleads; read together they are the picture a decision needs.

The three domains

A sanctions list is a geopolitical act with a geoeconomic effect.

An export control on a chip is a geotechnology rule that redraws a supply chain. A trade bloc is an alliance written in tariff schedules. The domains moved apart in the textbooks; they never moved apart in the world.

01Geopolitical

States, alignments and conflict

Which states set the terms, which stand together, where a dispute is live and where a settlement is holding. Read from official statements and public records, dated, with every conflict between sources printed.

Level: official texts and public records

02Geoeconomic

Trade, capital, sanctions and industrial policy

Tariffs and trade measures, capital and investment rules, sanctions lists and the programmes that pay to move industry. Read from the official texts, with the dates on which they take effect, and never as a view on any security.

Level: the published measure and its date

03Geotechnology

Chips, AI, data and the controls around them

Export controls, data rules, AI rules and the races for the technologies that matter: who may sell what to whom, and under which rule.

Level: public policy and markets. No technical data

The engagement

One reading, for one organisation, in four forms.

Each reading is for one organisation and is delivered as an engagement deliverable under an engagement letter: not a brief in the published series, not a view on any security, and not legal or tax advice.

A question answered: one question about a state, a measure, a dispute or a technology rule, answered in writing, with the options to consider, each dated. A scenario set: distinct futures across the three domains, each with what would have to be true and the signs that tell them apart; where a probability is put on an event, see forecasts and scenarios. A standing review: the three domains re-read for the organisation on an agreed cadence, so what changed since the last reading is visible. A leadership session: the picture presented to a board or a team, with the questions worked through in the room; see briefings and presentations.

The picture

The three domains meet at one organisation, where it operates.

None is read first: the order is set by what reaches the organisation, not by the domain.

THE DOMAINS · PUBLIC, DATED GEOPOLITICALStates · alignments · conflict GEOECONOMICTrade · capital · sanctions · industrial policy GEOTECHNOLOGYChips · AI · data · export controls WHERE THEY MEET One organisation, where it operates Markets · sites · suppliers · customers Read at the level of public policy and markets. No technical data.
Three lanes of equal width, converging on the organisation they are read for. The dashed rule beneath is the level every lane is read at. The accent marks the point that gives the reading its subject.
Related capabilities

The domains are the forces the other capabilities read against.

Geo-strategy reads them against an organisation’s position; geo-business strategy against its decisions. Everything in the three domains that can reach an organisation where it operates, kept current as an edition, is an exposure assessment. The Strature Advisory page sets out the terms every engagement shares.

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