Power no longer rests solely on territories, resources or the army: it depends on the ability to control flows.
According to historian Xavier Carpentier-Tanguy, a specialist in the maritime world, the power struggle around the Strait of Hormuz reveals the emergence of a "rheocracy", a new geopolitical order where power no longer depends solely on control of territories but also on the ability to control, secure or disrupt global physical and immaterial flows.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde Economie has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
