Geopolitics & Middle Powers

Alliance Engine

How I learned to love industrial AI

18 hrs ago • Anton Leicht

Escape Velocity

The political economy of space compute

Aug 25 • Anton Leicht

Real sovereign AI has never been tried

Jun 17 • Anton Leicht

Soon, access to frontier AI will be scarce and selective

May 13 • Anton Leicht

Can You Poach A Frontier Lab?

A stepwise roadmap for U.S. allies after the Anthropic crisis

Mar 3 • Anton Leicht

Billions of people or trillions of dollars are catastrophically wrong

Feb 25 • Anton Leicht

What AI Summits Are For

The best international AI policy is to fix national strategies

Feb 16 • Anton Leicht

Compute for Access

How and why middle powers should import frontier AI systems

Feb 6 • Anton Leicht

How AI Safety Is Getting Middle Powers Wrong

The case for pivoting from global governance to national interests

Jan 22 • Anton Leicht

Forging a Pax Silica

Can the Western alliance be rebuilt on techno-strategical leverage?

Dec 17, 2025 • Anton Leicht

When Should Nations Sell Their Data?

Service economies might have to treat data as a strategic asset beyond privacy politics

Oct 29, 2025 • Anton Leicht

The Future of AI Export Deals

AI developers can build moats by making country-level exports work for everyone

Oct 23, 2025

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