7 theatres of power
under permanent surveillance.
FARO Institute does not monitor the news. It monitors the forces that produce it.
Technologies of power.
Artificial intelligence, semiconductors, orbital constellations, quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography, biotechnologies and genomic editing, critical materials, autonomous systems, 6G networks, hypersonic. ↳ Space & Orbital Domain: space governance (Artemis Accords vs. UN framework), orbital economy, doctrinal militarisation (Space Force / PLA SSF), launch market concentration, orbital debris & Kessler syndrome, Earth observation as sovereign intelligence.
Redefines hierarchies between states and private actors faster than any other force.
Where to invest, where to accept exposure, where to reduce dependency.
Energy & transition.
Supply security, LNG, hydrocarbons, low-carbon transition, SMRs, critical energy dependencies.
The primary lever of geopolitical pressure. The energy transition displaces dependencies — it does not eliminate them.
Energy exposure, supply chains, transition timeline.
Industry & value chains.
Relocation, production dependencies, logistical resilience, industrial competitiveness, trade policy, USMCA.
Value chains have become instruments of power. Their recomposition is rapid, asymmetric, and irreversible.
Industrial positioning, sourcing arbitrage, exposure to logistical disruptions.
Critical infrastructures & cybersecurity.
Submarine cables, electricity grids, financial systems, cyber defence, sovereign cloud, SCADA/ICS, water infrastructures, clearing systems.
Critical infrastructures are the new battlegrounds. Their fragility is both a strategy and a systemic risk.
Exposure to disruptions, resilience investments, security posture.
Systemic risks & geopolitics.
Power reconfigurations, great power tensions, rupture scenarios, strategic doctrine, proliferation, sub-threshold warfare. ↳ Global health & biosecurity: WHO governance, pandemic treaty, vaccine diplomacy, antimicrobial resistance. ↳ Maritime space & contested zones: South and East China Seas, Arctic routes, EEZ, contested UNCLOS, naval power projection.
Systemic risks cannot be read in the news — they are detected in structures.
Geopolitical positioning, exposure to international order disruptions.
Geoeconomics & financial flows.
Sanctions, capital flows, reserve currency recomposition, sovereign wealth funds, emerging market debt, commodity markets, crypto-assets & circumvention, FDI screening.
Geoeconomics is the central instrument of power competition. Finance is a field of force, not merely a market.
Financial exposure, location arbitrage, reading of economic pressures.
Strategic talents & anchors of power.
Skills mobility, strategic human capital, institutional attractiveness, elite circulation, diaspora, soft power, economic intelligence, strategic demography, transatlantic anchors.
Talent is an asset of power. Its concentration, flight or capture redefines the competitiveness of nations and organisations.
Human capital strategy, attractiveness, institutional alliances, Franco-Mexican and transatlantic anchors.