The financial architecture that clears payments, the insurance markets that absorb loss, the supply chains that carry goods, the governance mechanisms that coordinate crisis response. These are not background to geopolitics. They are geopolitics. And they are hollowing out from within.

Geopolitical Fractures 2026 maps four structural breaks where these systems are already failing, and tracks how they compound. The cascades this report tracks are not hypothetical. They are unfolding in real time.