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Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.), Founding Partner, Tactical Management

Founding Partner · Tactical Management

Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.)

Most people talk. Some write.

Very few allocate capital, and live with the consequences.

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April 30, 2026

An editorial reading of the three river basins that define Middle Eastern hydropolitics, drawing on Die Ressource by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.). A meditation on water, power, and the sovereignty negotiations that European foreign policy still files under the wrong heading.

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About

An investor who writes, because capital is also an argument.

Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) is Founding Partner at Tactical Management, a private investment firm focused on operational carve-outs, succession capital for the European Mittelstand, and sovereign-grade infrastructure across security, energy, and AI.

More than 30 published books, in German, English, and Spanish, anchor a body of public writing that runs from market microstructure to AI liability to the geopolitics of pipelines. The essays here continue that record in long form.

He writes from Madrid and the field, with the bias of a practitioner.