Mauricio Herrera Kahn

As the world shifts from fossil fuels to electrification and renewable energy, the struggle for control over resources, technologies, and infrastructure is reshaping the balance of global power. “For more than a century, oil was the energetic heart of the…

The Hidden Nervous System of the Digital Economy In the popular imagination, the internet is often depicted as an intangible cloud floating above the planet. The physical reality, however, is very different. Beneath the world’s oceans lies a vast network…

“In the 21st century, whoever controls the flows of data controls the architecture of power.” In public debate, submarine cables often appear as technical projects associated with connectivity, digital commerce or telecommunications modernization. However, behind these invisible routes under the…

Energy, Power and the Cost of Conflict Power has never been neutral. From the first human group that dominated fire to the states that today control the planet’s energy, the logic has been persistent. Whoever accumulates resources imposes conditions. Whoever…

Europe has entered a zone of energy fragility that is no longer temporary but structural. Its narrative as a global power is crumbling under a brutal reality: it depends on external decisions to keep its own lights on. Decades of…

“Hunger isn’t a lack of food, it’s too much power in too few hands.” “Whoever controls wheat controls peace. Whoever controls hunger controls the world.” Food is humanity’s oldest strategic resource and the most decisive one for the future. No…

“Artificial intelligence is not just algorithms or data. It is power, control, and sovereignty. The 21st century is being decided in servers, in submarine cables, and in digital laws that will determine who rules the new global order.” Artificial intelligence…

“Illegal power is neither periphery nor shadow; it is a global system fed by formal politics and the formal economy” — inspired by Lucía Dammert Illegal power is neither accident nor exception. It is a parallel system spanning continents, sustained…

“There is no ocean without an owner, no ice without a price. The melting opens routes, but also claims that are worth more than oil.” The Northern Sea Route (NSR), also known as the Northeast Passage, is a shipping route…

“It’s not a sea, it’s a chessboard. On its waters float aircraft carriers, millions of tons of goods, and the promise of an energy bounty. Here the great powers stare at themselves in the mirror of greed and the fear…