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The Insight Forward Blog
The Insight Forward blog delivers sharp, strategic insight for those navigating a complex global environment. Our writing blends geopolitical foresight with practical relevance, serving leaders, analysts, and professionals across industries.
Explore three distinct but connected series:
– The Geopolitics Of… decodes how global power dynamics shape specific sectors, themes, and issues.
– Geopolitics for Leaders translates geopolitical shifts into decision-ready insight for executives and senior professionals.
– Geopolitical Intelligence Analysis focuses on refining the practice of analysis — helping professionals improve the rigour, clarity, and impact of their work.
Whether you're making board-level decisions, managing risk, or sharpening your analytical skills, these perspectives are built to support better thinking in uncertain times.
Geopolitics for Leaders
Geopolitics isn’t just for analysts, it’s for decision-makers. Geopolitics for Leaders is Insight Forward’s dedicated series for executives, board members, and senior professionals. We break down key developments — from regional power moves to systemic risks — and translate them into strategic relevance for leadership.
The Geopolitics of
“The Geopolitics Of…” is Insight Forward’s strategic blog series decoding how political, economic, and social power plays influence industries, markets, and nations. Whether you’re guiding corporate strategy or managing risk exposure, this blog offers sharp insight, clear perspective, and informed foresight.
Geopolitical Intelligence Analysis
Sharper analysis. Smarter decisions. Geopolitical Intelligence Analysis is Insight Forward’s resource for professionals refining the art and science of strategic analysis. This section explores best practices, tradecraft, and the common challenges faced by analysts working at the intersection of geopolitics, risk, and decision support.
GEOPOLITICS FOR LEADERS
Geopolitics for the CISO
Chief Information Security Officers must recognize the growing influence of geopolitics on cybersecurity. The rise in cyber operations linked to state-sponsored actors has made cybersecurity a critical front in global conflicts.
Geopolitics for the CEO
Historically, corporations were often viewed as neutral economic players focused solely on profit and shareholder value. However, today they wield considerable influence on both domestic and international politics.
Geopolitics for the CFO
From trade wars and sanctions to supply chain disruptions and election-driven market fluctuations, CFOs must now integrate geopolitical risk management into their financial strategies.
THE GEOPOLITICS OF
The Geopolitics of the Financial Sector
The banking and financial sector operates within a highly interconnected global economy, making it particularly vulnerable to geopolitical shifts. Political instability, trade disputes, sanctions, military conflicts, and regulatory changes can all have profound implications on financial markets, cross-border capital flows, and investment strategies.
The Geopolitics of Western Europe
Western Europe faces a complex and precarious geopolitical position, caught between great power competition, the resurgence of nationalism, and prolonged economic stagnation that limits its ability to act as a major global player. The United States' strategic pivot toward Asia and China’s expanding economic influence have left Europe increasingly vulnerable.
The Geopolitics of Healthcare
Geopolitics has profound consequences for global healthcare that corporations need to take more seriously. From disrupting supply chains and limiting access to essential medicines to undermining global health governance and exacerbating crises in conflict zones, geopolitical instability threatens the efficiency, accessibility, and equity of healthcare worldwide.
GEOPOLITICAL INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS
Defending in Time not Space
President Donald Trump's foreign policy marks a departure from the neoliberal focus on democracy promotion, globalization, and economic interdependence that has defined U.S. strategy since the Cold War. Instead, it signals a return to a 19th-century realist framework, prioritizing nationalism, unilateralism, and narrowly defined national interests.
Intelligence Analysis and Unorthodox Policy Making
President Trump’s recent flurry of executive orders has upended the traditional policy-making process, bypassing the usual interagency coordination, congressional oversight, and diplomatic engagement that have historically shaped U.S. foreign policy.
Trump's Foreign Policy and Corporate Decision Making
President Donald Trump's foreign policy marks a departure from the neoliberal focus on democracy promotion, globalization, and economic interdependence that has defined U.S. strategy since the Cold War. Instead, it signals a return to a 19th-century realist framework, prioritizing nationalism, unilateralism, and narrowly defined national interests.
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