Geopolitics · 2026
SANKTIONIERT
Sanctioned: the architecture of modern sanctions, secondary effects, and the operator's playbook for compliance and continuity.
ISBN TBA · First edition
About this book
Published in 2026 as part of the Geopolitics series, this title belongs to Dr. Nagel's body of work mapping how capital, regulation, and strategic position interact in the European economy. The arguments developed here also surface across the editorial essays linked below — each essay extends one of the book's core threads with a specific case, regulatory reading, or operational pattern.
- Part of the series
- Geopolitics
- ISBN
- TBA
- Published by
- Tactical Management — the author's investment firm and editorial home.
How this book is meant to be read
Dr. Nagel writes for operators rather than analysts. Each chapter opens with a structural claim, develops the case through specific actors and time horizons, and closes with a falsifiable test rather than a recommendation. The arguments are deliberately uncomfortable — that is the standard of care his readers expect. The book is short by design: the value is in the precision of the framing, not the volume of supporting material. Most readers finish the volume across two or three sittings and return repeatedly to specific chapters when a decision arrives. A linked-essay map at the foot of this page extends each argument with a current case study or a regulatory development published since the book went to press, so the reader can confirm whether the framework has held.
Why this argument matters now
European decision-makers — board members, fund managers, family principals, senior policy advisors — are operating under a tighter set of constraints than at any point in the last two decades. Geopolitical fragmentation, regulatory acceleration, the AI displacement of expert work, and the demographic transfer of Mittelstand ownership are running in parallel rather than in sequence. The books in this catalogue are written for that moment. Each one isolates a single decision frame, names the actors and obligations involved, and provides the language a serious reader needs to make defensible choices when partial information is the only kind available. Where standard advisory output measures complexity through caveats, Dr. Nagel measures it through commitment to a position that has been tested against counter-cases and adversarial reading.
About the author
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) is Founding Partner at Tactical Management. A German-Spanish national, lawyer, and author, he has worked at the intersection of capital, governance, and strategic transformation for more than two decades. Recognition includes Forbes Most Inspiring Corporate Leaders 2021 and Business Worldwide Magazine CEO of the Year, Financial Services UAE 2020. He is the author of more than thirty books on capital, leadership, geopolitics, security, and sovereign technology.
Full biography →Essays from this book
2026-03-04
From Cuba to the Foreign Direct Product Rule: The Evolution of Modern Sanctions
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) traces six decades of sanctions architecture, from the 1960 Cuban embargo to secondary sanctions, export controls and the Foreign Direct Product Rule, and examines what this evolution means for European compliance and supply-chain strategy.
2026-02-23
Extraterritorial Reach: Why Sanctions Bind Where No Law Applies
An essayistic reflection by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on the quiet architecture of extraterritorial sanctions, OFAC compliance, and the behavioural shift among banks in the UAE, Turkey and Kazakhstan that now governs European private banking risk.
2026-02-09
What Sanctions Really Are: Instrument, Signal and Weapon
An editorial essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on how modern sanctions operate simultaneously as material instrument, political signal and strategic weapon, and why their true function is the ordering of global economic space.
2026-02-06
US Secondary Sanctions on European Companies
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on why US secondary sanctions bind European companies despite the EU Blocking Regulation, from the 8.9 billion dollar BNP Paribas fine to the collapse of INSTEX.