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Mackinder Forum Prize in Geopolitical Risk Analysis

The Mackinder Forum invited students at Cambridge University to enter a competition focused on Geopolitical Risk Analysis. The purpose of this competition was to reward Cambridge students for excellence in the study of geopolitical risk.  

Winner
Tom Makins
BA, Human, Social, and Political Sciences
Friends with Bombs: How America’s Allies Are Becoming the Real Proliferation Risk
 
Runner Up
Kylie Hammack
MPhil in BA, Human, Social, and Political Sciences
Local Corruption and Strategic Risk: The Geography of Geopolitical Instability
 
Highly Commended
Harry Johnson
MPhil Global Risk and Resilience
The UK is unprepared for the next global systemic crisis
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Tom Makins

"Friends with Bombs: How America's Allies Are Becoming the Real Proliferation Risk"

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Kylie Hammack

Kylie Hammack

"Local Corruption and Strategic Risk: The Geography of Geopolitical Instability"

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Harry Johnson

"The UK is under-prepared for the next global systemic crisis."

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Darija Maras

Darija Maras

"The Geopolitical Risk Premium: How Alliance Structures Drive Energy Procurement Costs"

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Josh Birrell

Josh Birrell

"Destabilisation and disinformation - the weaponisation of TikTok toward influencing narratives of decline."

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Victoria Xiao

Victoria Xiao

"Orbiting Capital: How the US-China Space Race is Reshaping Private Investment"

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Håvard Tvedt Bakka

"Chokepoints and Commitments: The Strategic Effectiveness of US Semiconductor Export Controls"

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Mathias Richter

"Bougainville: Independence, Economic Development and Strategic Competition in the Pacific"

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Niles Webb

"Geopolitics at the Checkout: The Rise of App-Led Consumer Boycotts"

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Ben Wishart

"Resource nationalism, Sino-American rivalry and the limits of sovereign statecraft between resource curse and resource imperialism"

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