Geopolitics and Geostrategy: Key Insights

Geopolitics affects every global organization. It is reshaping global markets and business operations.

In today's volatile landscape, geopolitical risk presents both challenges and opportunities for global organizations. To thrive, they must implement transformational change swiftly. Executives need to map the impact of these risks across their operations, integrating geopolitical risk management into their overall strategy and governance in order to anticipate disruptions and effectively drive enterprise-wide growth.

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Navigating the business impacts of geopolitics

Geopolitical change affects every part of your business. Click on the tabs to learn more.

National security and economic goals are increasingly being melded by governments, often aiming to enhance domestic production and competition in strategic industries. Using political risk assessments and political risk due diligence through bespoke political risk analysis to adapting trade and finance strategies is one way organizations could look to manage these impacts.

Learn how to manage volatility, optimize capital, and navigate complex risks in a changing global landscape.

Risk Transformation Study

The 2025 EY Global Risk Transformation Study explores how Risk Strategists see disruption earlier, adapt faster and respond with more precision.

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In a volatile geopolitical environment, with new trade tariffs, companies are adapting their supply chain strategies for agility, resilience and sustainability. Not only can scenario analysis help improve an organizations risk management approach, but conducting a geostrategy maturity assessment enables them to benchmark performance and ultimately improve their geostrategic resilience.

Explore how to adapt your strategy and supply chain to stay competitive and resilient in the face of disruption.

Supply Chain Reset

Companies are making their supply chains more cost-efficient, resilient and sustainable in an increasingly uncertain world. Learn how.

Futureproof Global Trade

Master global trade complexities with strategies for integration, technology and ESG alignment. Discover how tax leaders can future-proof trade functions.

Organizations globally are grappling with the challenge of incorporating resilience to geopolitical volatility into their long-term strategies. There are likely to be both risks and opportunities associated with geopolitical change, but it is those who have conducted the appropriate scenario planning exercises and baked agility into their strategies who will be best placed to respond.

See how we can help you build resilience in a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape.

Sovereign Industrial Policy

Government action is crucial in rebuilding a sovereign industrial policy to ensure economic security and bolster domestic manufacturing. Learn more.

CEO Outlook

Explore CEO 2026 priorities: disciplined growth that ties AI to ROI, embeds geopolitics into strategy and uses M&A to compete amid volatility.

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Geostrategy by Design

A new book from the Geostrategic Business Group and a professor from the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School advises executives on how to manage geopolitical risks in the new era of globalization. 

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