Explainer: Chokepoints as instruments of power
For most of the postwar era, a maritime chokepoint was a geographic inconvenience a narrow passage that added insurance costs, invited piracy, and occasionally required naval escor...
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For most of the postwar era, a maritime chokepoint was a geographic inconvenience a narrow passage that added insurance costs, invited piracy, and occasionally required naval escor...
The point where the world compressesThe global system rests on a silent premise. Flows must remain open. Energy, goods, capital, and food move through routes that, though invisible...
First, it was the Panama Canal, then came the Strait of Hormuz. What could be next? America’s actions in the two major shipping channels have grabbed headlines, and global attentio...
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the most recent example of how maritime chokepoints can be leveraged as a useful political tool, forcing global supply chains to adapt to a m...
The blockading of ships in the Strait of Hormuz as a result of the conflict between the United States and Iran has demonstrated how ships and seafarers have become “leverage in geo...
Disruptions in Hormuz immediately generate concern regarding Malacca, another vital maritime chokepoint.
The blockading of ships in the Strait of Hormuz as a result of the conflict between the United States and Iran has demonstrated how ships and seafarers have become “leverage in geo...
If you’d never heard of the Strait of Hormuz before, you probably have by now. Iran’s effective closure of the waterway, which usually carries about 20% of the world’s oil and gas,...
The architecture of global maritime trade has undergone a structural reset and the Strait of Hormuz, long taken as a given, is now the most consequential and most fragile corridor...
Hoover Institution fellow Eyck Freymann explains what the Iran war and the blockade of the Straight of Hormuz reveals about modern economic chokepoints, geopolitics and war strateg...
(click to enlarge) The Strait of Hormuz is technically open but operationally constrained, functioning as a de facto Iranian-controlled bottleneck rather than a free transit corrid...
KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 — The Strait of Malacca, one of the world’s most important shipping lanes, remained th...
Two chokepoints now stand out: advanced semiconductors for China and rare-earth minerals for the United States.
(By Oil & Gas 360) – The Strait of Hormuz has always mattered. What’s changed is that the world is being reminded, […]
Dr. Gil FeilerThe prospect of a United States–imposed maritime blockade against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz represents one of the most consequential geopolitical scenarios in th...
Disruption at the Strait of Hormuz will set off a chain reaction of pressure through the global shipping network, requiring international defense efforts, writes US Navy Supply Cor...
Allies, military analysts and skeptics of the U.S. strategy have been asking how Iran was allowed to seize and maintain control of the passage in the first place.
Why the World’s Most Important Chokepoint Is About to Expose the Limits of Globalized EnergyContinue reading on Medium »
America’s military blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has choked off shipping – a move to force Iran to negotiate. The strategy could escalate tensions.
Edward Fishman's Chokepoints explains how the US came to rely on its economic arsenal, but stops short of a complete assessment of the unreliable tactic and its often devastating c...
Iran's top parliamentarian has hinted at extending maritime pressure to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a vital global trade route, amid ongoing disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. This...
(click to enlarge) After the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, traffic fell to an average of just six ships per day, compared with around 129 per day before the conflict be...
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