Tag: Great Power Competition
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Reflections from the 2026 GZERO Summit in London on whether a Middle Powers coalition can overcome the prisoner’s dilemma of breaking ranks, what variable geometry would need to succeed, how the US and China see it, and five practical steps for business.
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MI5 has called for national security to become a shared endeavour. But CNI operators already work to a formal ceiling on what they must withstand alone — Design Basis Threat — and no one has a protocol for the gap above it, as the Jaguar Land Rover attack showed.
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Reflections from the 2026 Chatham House London Conference on the weight of expectation now resting on middle powers, NATO’s new architecture, the US-China contest for global order, and what it means for organisational risk teams.
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19 June 2026 By Stephen Hermanson Even a year in geopolitics might be considered a long time. At the Chatham House London Conference on the 20 June 2025, I reported on considerations for private sector critical infrastructure. A year on, I’ve returned to reflect on what’s changed. Part 1: Report from the Chatham House London…
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A geopolitical reflection on Deneys Reitz’s trilogy – Commando, Trekking On and No Outspan – exploring how the events of over a century ago mirror the power shifts, resource competition, and alliance dynamics we observe today.