Geopolitics
From Waterways to Warways: The Geopolitical Imperative of Europe's Neglected River Networks
Europe's historic river networks, a key to continental connectivity and strategic infrastructure, are being neglected despite their critical economic, ecological, and geopolitical importance, and their vulnerabilities were harshly exposed by the 2026 drought. This failure is a damning indictment of a fragmented European system that prioritizes Westphalian territorialism over the civilizational coherence needed to turn geographic assets into resilient, anti-imperial corridors of cooperation for a sovereign future.
