The geopolitics of railroads: Europe's decoupling doctrine

The Global Academy for Future Governance's Connectivity Doctrine demonstrated that infrastructure is governance made tangible. Europe's Decoupling Doctrine follows naturally from that insight. If connectivity determines resilience, then the purpose of connectivity must be to reduce strategic dependence while increasing sustainability, competitiveness and sovereignty.

The twenty-first century will not belong to the economies that simply produce more energy. It will belong to those that require less imported energy to generate greater prosperity. That is the true meaning of decoupling. The railway is not merely a greener means of transport.

It is the physical architecture through which Europe can simultaneously advance decarbonisation, strategic autonomy, industrial competitiveness and geopolitical resilience. Europe helped invent the future of rail transport. The question now is whether it is prepared to ride it.