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Editorial pieces on capital, leadership, geopolitics, security, and sovereign technology. Choose a topic, or browse the chronological record below.
- Geopolitics · SecurityGreen Hydrogen Water Requirements: Europe’s Blind Spot
Geopolitics · Security
Green Hydrogen Water Requirements: Europe’s Blind Spot
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) analyzes why 18 to 24 liters of water per kilogram of green hydrogen expose a structural flaw in the EU’s 2030 hydrogen strategy.
Jan 22, 2026 · 9 min read
- CapitalBuy-and-Build in European Mid-Market: The Nagel Playbook
Capital
Buy-and-Build in European Mid-Market: The Nagel Playbook
Buy-and-Build in the European mid-market, analysed by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) in KAPITAL: platform logic, add-on sequencing, integration discipline, and returns.
Jan 22, 2026 · 10 min read
- LeadershipLeadership Under Pressure: The Real Test of Executives
Leadership
Leadership Under Pressure: The Real Test of Executives
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on leadership under pressure: why crisis strips simulated authority and reveals who truly decides when options disappear.
Jan 22, 2026 · 9 min read
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Sicherheitsroboter aus Baden-Württemberg – Lösung für den Fachkräftemangel?
Ein Start-up aus Filderstadt bei Stuttgart hat einen Sicherheitsroboter entwickelt, der Firmengelände, Krankenhäuser und öffentliche Gebäude autonom überwachen kann. SWR1-Reporterin Geli Hensoldt hat sich den Prototypen angeschaut und berichtet, wie die Technologie den wachsenden Bedarf an Sicherheitspersonal in Deutschland abfedern soll. Read more
Jan 22, 2026 · 2 min read
- Geopolitics · Security · TechnologyAlgorithmic Discrimination & Legal Framework
Geopolitics · Security · Technology
Algorithmic Discrimination & Legal Framework
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on algorithmic discrimination and legal framework: why COMPAS, Amazon recruiting and proxy bias define compliance risk under the EU AI Act.
Jan 21, 2026 · 9 min read
- LeadershipMyth of the Self-Made Individual by Raphael Nagel
Leadership
Myth of the Self-Made Individual by Raphael Nagel
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) dismantles the myth of the self-made individual: inheritance precedes choice, and recognizing it is the start of real freedom.
Jan 21, 2026 · 9 min read
- Capital · LeadershipWhy Restructuring Is More Than Numbers: The Anthropology of Turnaround
Capital · Leadership
Why Restructuring Is More Than Numbers: The Anthropology of Turnaround
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on mid-market restructuring in Europe, drawn from his book KOMPLEXITÄT. Why the first diagnosis rarely holds, why organisational inertia is not a number, and why authority, patience and a certain coldness remain indispensable leadership virtues in any serious turnaround.
Jan 20, 2026 · 7 min read
- LeadershipMother Tongue and Identity Formation | Raphael Nagel
Leadership
Mother Tongue and Identity Formation | Raphael Nagel
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) explains how the first language absorbed in childhood structures cognition, emotion, and identity for life, drawing on WURZELN.
Jan 19, 2026 · 9 min read
- Capital · Geopolitics · SecurityBeijing Agreement Iran Saudi Arabia 2023: Energy Analysis
Capital · Geopolitics · Security
Beijing Agreement Iran Saudi Arabia 2023: Energy Analysis
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on the Beijing agreement Iran Saudi Arabia 2023: Chinese mediation and what it means for Middle East energy architecture.
Jan 16, 2026 · 10 min read
- LeadershipSWIFT, Dollar and Clearing: The Invisible Financial Architecture of Energy Policy
Leadership
SWIFT, Dollar and Clearing: The Invisible Financial Architecture of Energy Policy
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on how SWIFT sanctions, dollar invoicing and correspondent banking form the real chokepoints of energy policy, and why CIPS and SPFS mark the slow beginning of a multi-rail financial order.
Jan 16, 2026 · 7 min read
- Geopolitics · SecurityPrivatization and the Limits of the Market in Water Supply
Geopolitics · Security
Privatization and the Limits of the Market in Water Supply
An essayistic reflection by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on water privatization models in France, Germany, Chile and Australia, and on the policy criteria that should guide European mixed arrangements in the coming decades.
Jan 15, 2026 · 8 min read
- Geopolitics · SecurityEuropean Water Resilience Strategy 2025 Explained
Geopolitics · Security
European Water Resilience Strategy 2025 Explained
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) analyses the European Water Resilience Strategy 2025: five pillars, the 10% reduction target by 2030 and why utilities decide success.
Jan 15, 2026 · 10 min read
- Capital · LeadershipDeciding Under Uncertainty: The Discipline of Better Questions
Capital · Leadership
Deciding Under Uncertainty: The Discipline of Better Questions
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on why serious decisions in boards and cabinets begin with better questions, not faster answers, and how probabilities, trade-offs and time horizons shape judgment that is reproducible rather than merely correct.
Jan 15, 2026 · 8 min read
- Capital · LeadershipFreud’s Legacy Remeasured: The Adaptive Unconscious and the 50 of 11 Million Bits
Capital · Leadership
Freud’s Legacy Remeasured: The Adaptive Unconscious and the 50 of 11 Million Bits
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on what contemporary neuroscience retains from Freud, what it discards, and why the decision journal becomes an epistemic necessity once we accept that most of our reasoning is post hoc.
Jan 15, 2026 · 8 min read
- Geopolitics · SecurityBeyond Oil: Viable Sectors for a Diversified Equatorial Guinean Economy
Geopolitics · Security
Beyond Oil: Viable Sectors for a Diversified Equatorial Guinean Economy
An editorial reading of Dr. Raphael Nagel’s Guinea Ecuatorial 2040, examining which productive sectors can realistically carry the weight of diversification over the next decade and what enabling conditions they require.
Jan 15, 2026 · 7 min read
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Forbes: Inspiring Business Leaders of 2021
We want to create a space where entrepreneurs and scientists from all over the globe can work together collaboratively. We want to make a technology campus here in Dubai, where people can effectively live and work together in harmony. Read more
Aug 04, 2023 · 2 min read
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Raphael Nagel: Der Spiegel
Leaving footprints as we continue our journey of bridging human-to-human relationships Read more
Dec 17, 2022 · 2 min read
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Raphael Nagel: Promoting UAE-Israel business ties
Cordial business relationships eventually can lead to close personal ties between peoples. Read more
Mar 21, 2021 · 2 min read
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COMMENT: Why logistics is a critical component of a safe and stable Middle East
By Raphael Nagel, Chairman of the Abrahamic Business Circle, an organisation promoting economic diplomacy through business, based in Dubai. See more
Mar 09, 2021 · 2 min read
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Domino Effect: Why UAE’s Israel Deal Means More Than Just New Routes
Increased competition and better cargo cooperation will benefit consumers, says Raphael Nagel, chairman of the Abrahamic Business Circle Seemore
Feb 21, 2021 · 2 min read
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Momentous Occasion
Prominent dignitaries and entrepreneurs congratulate the United Arab Emirates on Hope Probe’s journey to Mars See more
Feb 09, 2021 · 2 min read
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WHY OPENING QATAR’S BORDERS IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS
There is no doubt that this week’s re-opening of borders between the Gulf nations and Qatar will lead to a renewed surge in business across the region. See more
Feb 04, 2021 · 2 min read
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Abrahamic Business Circle tap new opportunities
The bi-monthly events are a platform for experts to network with key members of the region’s business community. See more
Feb 03, 2021 · 2 min read
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Accélération du business entre Israël et les Emirats Arabes Unis – avec recyclage des covidollars
La première réunion de l’Abrahamic Business Circle s’est tenu à Dubaï le 31 janvier 2021. Un franc succès aux dires de ses organisateurs. L’enjeu était de taille. Il s’agissait en effet de traduire, en termes de business, les Accords Abraham, deux traités de paix entre Israël d’une part, et les Emirats Arabes Unis d’une part, et Bahreïn d’autre […]
Feb 02, 2021 · 2 min read