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Editorial pieces on capital, leadership, geopolitics, security, and sovereign technology. Choose a topic, or browse the chronological record below.
- Capital · Geopolitics · SecurityPetrodollar System Future: Power, Yuan and BRICS+
Capital · Geopolitics · Security
Petrodollar System Future: Power, Yuan and BRICS+
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on the petrodollar system future: why Nixon’s 1971 bargain still anchors dollar power and how petroyuan, BRICS+ and CBDCs reshape it.
Mar 31, 2026 · 10 min read
Geopolitics
Europa kann alles – nur nicht handeln?
Europa gilt als reich, gebildet, technologisch leistungsfähig und politisch stabil. Und doch – so die zentrale These von Raphael Nagel – verliert der Kontinent. Nicht schleichend, sondern strukturell. Read more
Mar 31, 2026 · 2 min read
- Capital · LeadershipMaking Irreversible Business Decisions: Executive Framework
Capital · Leadership
Making Irreversible Business Decisions: Executive Framework
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on making irreversible business decisions: the sequenced framework, the cost of delay, and why posture decides under pressure.
Mar 30, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologySemiconductor Supply Chain Geopolitical Risk: A Board Guide
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
Semiconductor Supply Chain Geopolitical Risk: A Board Guide
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) analyses semiconductor supply chain geopolitical risk: why TSMC, ASML and NVIDIA concentration forces CEOs to treat chip exposure as a board-level issue.
Mar 30, 2026 · 9 min read
- Capital · LeadershipSuccession Is Not a Will: The Ten-Year Leadership Process Behind Generational Transfer
Capital · Leadership
Succession Is Not a Will: The Ten-Year Leadership Process Behind Generational Transfer
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on why family business succession is a fifteen-year leadership process, not a legal act, and how handover, siblings, and resilience decide the fate of a house.
Mar 30, 2026 · 7 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAI and the Future of Knowledge Work: Who Wins?
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
AI and the Future of Knowledge Work: Who Wins?
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on AI and the future of knowledge work: why high-skill professionals face the deepest disruption, and how to manage substitution and augmentation.
Mar 29, 2026 · 9 min read
- LeadershipPassing Values to the Next Generation | Dr. Nagel
Leadership
Passing Values to the Next Generation | Dr. Nagel
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on passing values to the next generation: five transmission channels, the horror of repetition, and why Haltung outlives capital.
Mar 29, 2026 · 10 min read
- Capital · Leadership · TechnologySystem 1 Produces, System 2 Rationalises: Rereading Kahneman for Investors
Capital · Leadership · Technology
System 1 Produces, System 2 Rationalises: Rereading Kahneman for Investors
An editorial essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on the Kahneman System 1 System 2 model, the friendship with Amos Tversky, Gerd Gigerenzer’s corrective on expert intuition, and the question every investor should ask before committing capital: where is my intuition calibrated, and where is it merely fluent.
Mar 27, 2026 · 7 min read
- CapitalContinuation Vehicles and GP-led Secondaries Explained
Capital
Continuation Vehicles and GP-led Secondaries Explained
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on continuation vehicles and GP-led secondaries: LPAC governance, fair value and conflicts in long-duration critical assets.
Mar 27, 2026 · 10 min read
- LeadershipTaiwan: 98% Import Dependence and the Silicon Deterrent
Leadership
Taiwan: 98% Import Dependence and the Silicon Deterrent
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on Taiwan as the most extreme case of modern energy vulnerability, and on TSMC’s 90% share of advanced chips as an implicit, fragile security guarantee within the emerging doctrine of mutual-dependence deterrence.
Mar 27, 2026 · 6 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyEuropean AI Sovereignty: Why Europe Regulates but Doesn’t Own AI
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
European AI Sovereignty: Why Europe Regulates but Doesn’t Own AI
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on European AI sovereignty: capital asymmetry, the Brussels Effect, industrial domain data, and the decisions that must be made now.
Mar 27, 2026 · 9 min read
- Capital · LeadershipThe Illusion of the Free Energy Market: How Politics Really Sets Prices and Flows
Capital · Leadership
The Illusion of the Free Energy Market: How Politics Really Sets Prices and Flows
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) dismantles the fiction of a neutral energy market, examining OPEC+ quota decisions, the G7 price cap on Russian oil, and US strategic reserve releases as evidence that infrastructure, licensing, and clearing form the genuine frame of price formation.
Mar 27, 2026 · 7 min read
- Capital · LeadershipFraming, Base Rates and the Quality of Public Decisions
Capital · Leadership
Framing, Base Rates and the Quality of Public Decisions
A policy essay drawing on Dr. Raphael Nagel’s Die Architektur des Denkens, arguing that Kahneman’s three insights on certainty, framing and base rates should reshape European regulatory impact assessments, institutional investor communications and public discourse. A case for base-rate literacy as a civic capacity.
Mar 27, 2026 · 7 min read
- LeadershipReturning to Roots in Midlife: The Strategic Turn
Leadership
Returning to Roots in Midlife: The Strategic Turn
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on why professionals return to their roots in midlife, and how to do it without slipping into nostalgia. From WURZELN.
Mar 26, 2026 · 10 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAI in Critical Infrastructure and NIS2: Board Duties
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
AI in Critical Infrastructure and NIS2: Board Duties
AI in Critical Infrastructure and NIS2: how data poisoning and adversarial attacks threaten KRITIS operators, and what Article 21 demands from boards.
Mar 26, 2026 · 9 min read
- LeadershipMemory as a Political Instrument | Dr. Raphael Nagel
Leadership
Memory as a Political Instrument | Dr. Raphael Nagel
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on memory as a political instrument: how institutions, symbols, and language shape collective identity and European power.
Mar 26, 2026 · 9 min read
- Geopolitics · SecurityDoctrines of Water Substitution: Israel, Singapore, and the Gulf
Geopolitics · Security
Doctrines of Water Substitution: Israel, Singapore, and the Gulf
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on the second strategic axis of Die Ressource: how capital and technology permit hydrologically weak states to construct sovereign water doctrines, and what European actors should learn from them.
Mar 25, 2026 · 7 min read
- CapitalInflation Hedge with Tangible Assets | Raphael Nagel
Capital
Inflation Hedge with Tangible Assets | Raphael Nagel
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on how scarcity, farmland, irreplaceable real estate and limited objects hedge inflation better than cash, bonds or digital tokens.
Mar 25, 2026 · 9 min read
- Capital · LeadershipInflation as Attack on Long-Term Savings
Capital · Leadership
Inflation as Attack on Long-Term Savings
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) shows why inflation attacks the stored decisions of long-term savers and turns inflationary regimes into short-term societies.
Mar 24, 2026 · 10 min read
- Leadership · TechnologyHuman in the Loop & Automation Bias: The Oversight Facade
Leadership · Technology
Human in the Loop & Automation Bias: The Oversight Facade
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on human in the loop automation bias: why nominal AI oversight fails and what five conditions Article 14 of the EU AI Act implicitly demands.
Mar 24, 2026 · 9 min read
- LeadershipWasted Human Capital: Education, Health and the Silent Devaluation of a Nation
Leadership
Wasted Human Capital: Education, Health and the Silent Devaluation of a Nation
An essay on the paradox of financial abundance and educational fragility in Equatorial Guinea, drawing on Dr. Raphael Nagel’s analysis of human capital, household incentives and the need to raise social spending from roughly two percent of GDP toward peer benchmarks.
Mar 24, 2026 · 8 min read
- Leadership · TechnologyOperator Liability for AI Systems: The Deployer’s Role
Leadership · Technology
Operator Liability for AI Systems: The Deployer’s Role
Operator liability for AI systems makes the deployer the central risk carrier in Europe. Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) maps AI Act deployer duties across sectors.
Mar 23, 2026 · 9 min read
- Capital · Geopolitics · SecuritySyria Civil War Pipeline Geopolitics: The Blocked Levant Corridor
Capital · Geopolitics · Security
Syria Civil War Pipeline Geopolitics: The Blocked Levant Corridor
How the July 2011 Islamic Pipeline agreement and the proxy war against Assad blocked the Levant Corridor. Analysis by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.).
Mar 23, 2026 · 9 min read
- CapitalETF Pitfalls and Concentrated Investing
Capital
ETF Pitfalls and Concentrated Investing
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on ETF pitfalls and concentrated investing: why market-cap indexing buys mediocrity and conviction-led portfolios win.
Mar 23, 2026 · 10 min read