How are Geopolitics and Trade Compliance linked?
CompliancePraxis article by Johannes Leitner and Hannes Meissner
The global economic and security order is undergoing profound change: fragmentation, geopolitical power shifts and a resurgence of neorealist political approaches are increasingly calling into question the previously dominant logic of globalization. For companies, this means a new reality in which sanctions, tariffs and export controls are no longer the exception, but rather central conditions for their international activities. At the same time, there is growing pressure to establish robust trade compliance structures that offer security without slowing down business operations. This article shows how closely geopolitics and trade compliance are now intertwined – and what strategies companies have to apply in this complex, multipolar world.