flowfutures

Foresight research & horizon scanning | Connectivity, supporting infrastructures & the security, mobility & circulations of critical global strategic flows

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Central Africa & #regionalconnectivity: @LiquidInTech & Facebook announce new fibre network which "...will stretch from Central DRC to the Eastern border with Rwanda & extend the reach of 2Africa, a major undersea cable..." #dataflows #flowarchitecture https://t.co/WBfLEFvzvt

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

#maritimeflows: interesting new research "with the objective of unravelling the nature of the complex relationships which might exist between maritime connectivity, trade & economic growth". Useful explicit recognition of "no modelling of the time axis" #flowdynamics #flowfutures

[Jan Hoffmann @JanHoffmann_gva]

New paper suggests that "economic policy and trade policy at the global, regional, and national level should recognize the need for, and foster, better maritime connectivity." Open access https://t.co/ltDgTx1dsY

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

We've mentioned #chokepoints & their potential significance for #flowdynamics & #flowsecurity a lot recently so this looks really interesting from @vtchakarova: we'll be signing-up!

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

The next session of my #Geopolitics class is focused on 'Global Choke Points".
The Suez Canal incident revealed why global choke points for #food & #oil are of a great importance.
➡️July 31, 6 pm CET/12 pm ET.
Gumroad: https://t.co/s6IFlyig3D
Eventbrite: https://t.co/5ieS9UL0v8

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Transport corridors: ‘CR Express’ & the China, Europe & Central Asia intercontinental #rail freight system. Challenging assertion these policies are 'structurally transformative' for economic development... #flowarchitecture #strategiccorridor #flowfutures https://t.co/mjbbznnNIF

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Connectivity, infrastructure & development: a critique on the conventional rationale for #economiccorridors. This looks like a really interesting paper... #flowarchitecture #strategiccorridor #flowfutures

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

The European 8 nation initiative recently moved into its second year of operations... #StraitofHormuz #chokepoints #flowsecurity 2/2 https://t.co/BN1YCg9tVs

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

A restatement of @EMASOH_AGENOR's declared #maritimesecurity mission "to protect freedom of navigation in the strait." #StraitofHormuz #chokepoints #flowsecurity 1/2

[Middle East Monitor @MiddleEastMnt]

Italy will protect freedom of navigation in Strait of Hormuz, insists minister https://t.co/6usWa2d22H

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Especially important in the context of a new 'cable construction boom' of up to $8 billion worth of investments over the next 3 years as identified by @telegeography... #underseacables #criticalinfrastructuresecurity https://t.co/bue97N4vzT

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

#underseacables & #criticalinfrastructuresecurity: "[R]emains surprising how little is known in public or among policy makers about how the network operates, how it is regulated, who controls it, and how it is protected from vulnerabilities...". 1/2

[Tobias Liebetrau @TobiasLiebetrau]

Happy to see our article on hidden infrastructure and protection of the submarine data cable network is now out in print - and in great company. Free copies of the article available here https://t.co/yXqHnfj9pb

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Overcoming invisibility: this was a really useful discussion on the 6 key challenges facing #underseacables & #criticalinfrastructuresecurity as proposed by @TobiasLiebetrau & @breitenbauch... https://t.co/iAALWAsLPR

[Christian Bueger @c_bueger]

Subsea Cables are the core infrastructure of the digital age. Yesterday discussed why it is so difficult to protect them.
Watch the recording, featuring @breitenbauch @TobiasLiebetrau @UNODC_MCP @timwalker919 @SubseaCables @safeseas1
https://t.co/p46cw0WIvS

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

In thinking about #flowsecurity & #chokepoints, the 'Malacca dilemma' remains a central & enduring issue... #flowcontrol https://t.co/zyX3dV25CZ

[Albert Pinto @70sBachchan]

And who can blame them for assessing threats rationally? US military strategies in Asia —Distant blockade’, ‘maritime denial’— center around naval chokepoints to deny China access to gulf energy & western markets.
Succinct appraisal here ht @policytensor https://t.co/u8sCb6PqdG

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Mitigating prospective extreme weather events as a potential threat to connectivity functions: #panamacanal #flowdisruption #chokepoints https://t.co/3PWJGSpmE5

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Cross-border data flows, data localization & digital sovereignty: prospective World Trade Organisation (WTO) treaty on e-Commerce "...could set a legal framework on international data flows for decades to come" #dataflows #flowfutures https://t.co/NC5tSzMLys

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

India & NER connectivity: "how... linking ports along the Bay of Bengal to the hinterland...can be utilised to offer these landlocked states the means to benefit from sea trade & the growing opportunities in the Indo-Pacific region" #flowfutures https://t.co/4OVTsr9nAs

[Indo-Pacific Monitor @indopacmonitor]

In Search of the Sea: Opening India’s Northeast to the Bay of Bengal | ORF https://t.co/BZNz8The8a

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

We'd planned to visit the #StraitofGibraltar for a research trip this year: now postponed to 2022. We hope to be able to visit @TM_Officiel... #criticalmaritimeroutes #SLOC #chokepoints

[TANGER MED @TM_Officiel]

The Strait of Gibraltar is the world's second busiest maritime route where more than 100,000 ships, 60 million TEU and 6 million passengers cross annually. #StraitofGibraltar

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

#BlackSea connectivity: can we frame the dispute over the #KanalIstanbul as representative of a Starosielskian 'turbulent ecology', with elements of the interplay & tensions which exist between strategies of insulation & interconnection? #contestedflows https://t.co/Y0hJGFAvF7

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

#BlackSea connectivity & #KanalIstanbul: thread on recent developments... The #Bosphorus is one of the world’s busiest waterways, bound by the international Montreux convention & of direct strategic maritime significance for Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Georgia & Russia... 1/10

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

#BlackSea connectivity: official position remains that #KanalIstanbul project can be completed in just 6 years & within a $15 billion budget. Statements also repeat key forecast on future yearly Bosporus shipping traffic, it "will reach 78,000 in 2050" https://t.co/Xp8Dg6WN8h

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

"The Indian Navy is also taking action, putting more warships along key sea lanes for longer durations. Its efforts include studying energy & trade flows in & out of China..." #criticalmaritimeroutes #SLOC h/t @alykhansatchu https://t.co/Ed2zGV7Elk

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

"[I]ncreases in the volume of shipments have been extraordinary. Since 2004, iron ore exports have gone from 200 million tonnes to 900 million... coal exports from 220 million tonnes to 400 million tonnes, & LNG from 8 million tonnes to 80 million tonnes." #naturalresourceflows

[ASPI @ASPI_org]

'Australia may have a small population (ranking 55th, just below North Korea and above Taiwan), but its resources give it a disproportionate value, particularly to the major economies of Asia' writes David Uren https://t.co/5mgApjRq3d

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

"In the atmosphere, another logic—a transboundary hydro-geo-logic—refuses imaginaries of control based on surfaces, vectors, & boundaries & instead insists on a logic of flows, processes, & entanglements." This is a fantastic paper... #naturalresourceflows #flowfutures

[Marco Ferrari @mariofaranda]

“Prologue to the Sky River” presents nearly three years of research on the materiality and spatial implications of a new theory and vast weather engineering project on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Co-written w/ brilliant @elisehunchuck & Jingru (Cyan) Cheng. https://t.co/Wpoyl0hLpW

[flowfutures @flowfutures]

Friendly #chokepoints social media...

[The Panama Canal @thepanamacanal]

Of Course I Still Love You. That's it. That's the tweet.