Case · high
Scam Centres: Eastern Europe vs Southeast Asia
A structural comparison of two scam centre models — compound coercion in Southeast Asia and office coercion in Eastern Europe — through the FCPI framework.
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Case Library
Structured case studies of platforms, infrastructures, and services that now shape continuity, coercion, and control.
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Case · high
AI Models as Choke Points: OpenAI, Google, and the FCPI Analysis of Model Power
Analysis of foundation model providers as high-FCPI infrastructure layers, and how AI model dependency creates sovereignty, continuity, and control risks.
Case · high
Cloud Providers as Sovereignty Choke Points: AWS, Azure, and the FCPI Model
Analysis of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud as high-FCPI infrastructure layers, and how cloud dependency creates sovereignty and control risks.
Case · high
SWIFT as a Financial Choke Point: Payments, Sanctions, and the FCPI Analysis
Analysis of SWIFT as a high-FCPI financial infrastructure, showing how payment messaging systems create global dependency and geopolitical leverage.
Case · high
Foundation Models as Emerging Choke Points
Model access layers can become strategically consequential when institutions depend on them for cognition, workflow acceleration, and system coordination.
Related frameworks
The analytical frameworks behind the scores.
Framework
FCPI Index
The framework that measures when a platform becomes a strategic dependency. Explains how every case score is derived.
Framework
Platform Sovereignty
When a platform acquires practical governing power over an essential function because exit becomes difficult, slow, or institutionally costly.
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Research papers whose case analysis bears directly on the Case Library.
Research Paper
Why Civil Control of Dual-Use Connectivity Will Fail in UK Waters
Examines why civil whitelisting regimes cannot contain adversarial use of LEO connectivity once it becomes indispensable for unmanned maritime operations.
Case Timeline
Unmanned Maritime Systems and LEO Connectivity: A Timeline to the UK Threshold
A chronological case study tracing how expendable unmanned craft, commercial LEO connectivity and governance responses evolved toward the UK inflection point.
Research Paper
Starlink vs. Starshield: Why Coercive Systems Destroy Platform Neutrality
The foundational case study of how a commercial platform became mission-critical inside a coercive system and what followed.