Geopolitics · 2026
DIE RESSOURCE
Water as the oldest strategic resource and new asset class.
ISBN 978-3-912703-47-4 · First edition
About this book
Published in 2026 as part of the Geopolitics series, this title belongs to Dr. Nagel's body of work mapping how capital, regulation, and strategic position interact in the European economy. The arguments developed here also surface across the editorial essays linked below — each essay extends one of the book's core threads with a specific case, regulatory reading, or operational pattern.
- Part of the series
- Geopolitics
- ISBN
- 978-3-912703-47-4
- Published by
- Tactical Management — the author's investment firm and editorial home.
About the author
Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) is Founding Partner at Tactical Management. A German-Spanish national, lawyer, and author, he has worked at the intersection of capital, governance, and strategic transformation for more than two decades. Recognition includes Forbes Most Inspiring Corporate Leaders 2021 and Business Worldwide Magazine CEO of the Year, Financial Services UAE 2020. He is the author of more than thirty books on capital, leadership, geopolitics, security, and sovereign technology.
Full biography →Essays from this book
2026-04-24
The Resource Curse on the Gulf of Guinea: Extractive Legacy and Path Dependency
An essayistic reading of Equatorial Guinea’s hydrocarbon dependency, drawing on Dr. Raphael Nagel’s Guinea Ecuatorial 2040 to examine how oil rents reshaped state, citizens, territory and institutional capabilities.
2026-04-24
The Oldest Strategic Resource: Water Before Gold, Oil and Semiconductors
An essay by Dr. Raphael Nagel (LL.M.) on why water, not metal or oil, was the first strategic resource of civilization, and why the West’s two-century amnesia about it is a historical anomaly now drawing to a close.