Geopolitics has returned to the center of business strategy. Trade restrictions, economic security policies, technological rivalry, sanctions, industrial policy, and changing alliances increasingly affect where firms invest, source, produce, innovate, and compete.

The GES Hub sits at the interface of international business, strategy, political economy, and security studies. Its core question is how firms can create and protect value when geopolitical fragmentation changes the rules of international business.

The Hub complements existing work at King’s and elsewhere on defense, intelligence, diplomacy, trade policy, supply-chain security, and macro-level statecraft. As a business-school platform, its distinctive contribution is to examine how geopolitical conditions enter managerial judgment, board oversight, organizational design, market entry and exit, partnerships, resilience investment, and corporate responsibility.

The Hub is independent, critical, and multidisciplinary while retaining a clear business-school identity. Its aim is neither corporate risk consulting nor abstract geopolitical commentary, but research-led insight into how firms respond to, shape, and are constrained by geopolitical transformation.