Strait Drive: Chokepoints, Supply Chains, and Demands for a New Era of Connectivity

From the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb strait, maritime chokepoints in an era now defined by disruptions remain critical arteries of global trade, energy security, and supply chains. As geopolitical competition, technological change, and emerging connectivity corridors push to reshape the international economic landscape, this session aims to explore the vulnerabilities and opportunities surrounding how global economics move today and the demands of how it would need to move tomorrow. The exchange aims to examine how governments, businesses, and regional actors can build resilience, diversify routes, and foster new policy frameworks of economic connectivity to use disruption as an opportunity to create continuity along with building new ownership and equities for the incoming iteration of the international order.