The Chokepoint Fallacy

Globalisation was sold as distributed resilience. This series examines what it actually built: structural chokepoints where critical systems depend on narrow nodes with high dependency, low substitutability, and long response lags. When uncertain political will is added, the damage compounds in ways most scenario models don't price. Four posts examining how global systems concentrated risk while organisations assumed the opposite.

The World Still Runs Through Chokepoints

Part 1 - Globalisation optimised for efficiency, not resilience. The geometry it produced was extremely narrow in critical places—energy routes, shipping corridors, insurance markets. Complexity became a proxy for resilience. The more elaborate the system, the harder to see where it ran thin.