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cybernetics

The Strait of Hormuz: Cascades, Delay and the Architecture of a Crisis

The current US President destabilised one of the most tightly coupled junctions on Earth, then seemed surprised when the consequences spread. The deeper problem is that political, ideological and socioeconomic systems often reproduce themselves through the disorder they create.

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cybernetics

A Bit of a Geopolitical Pickle: The Security Trap

Every attempt to secure one part of the world changes the conditions of security for everyone else. Endlessly.