Abstract The Strait of Malacca represents one of the most structurally critical nodes in the contemporary global maritime system, functioning as a high-density geoeconomic artery linking the Indian Ocean energy basin with the industrial demand centers of East Asia. Its strategic importance is not merely a function of volume throughput, but rather of its position … Leggi tutto The Strait of Malacca as the Next Systemic Maritime Chokepoint: Energy Security, Networked Geoeconomics and Cascading Global Risk in a Post-Hormuz Escalation Paradigm