The Hammurabi Code Series

The Siberian Question has been recognized as a Featured Author title in the 2026 BookFest Awards, one of the leading independent book festivals.

If you've read The Siberian Question or The Price of Water and you've been meaning to leave a review, here's everything you need in one place.

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Now that I've got The Price of Water and The Siberian Question out in the world,, the third book in The Hammurabi Series is underway, The Iranian Promise. Trump's war on Iran...

The most consequential period in any geopolitical transition is not the collapse. It's the shift that precedes it.

This is the sixth and final entry in the Pressure Points series, a collection of observations on resource scarcity, infrastructure fragility, and geopolitical leverage that informs the analytical foundation of the Hammurabi Code Series. If you're arriving here for the first time, the previous five entries are linked throughout this piece. Start anywhere. But this one is the...

By the time the regulation exists, the leverage is already in place.

There is a pattern I have watched repeat itself across resource sectors throughout more than three decades of legal practice. It is not dramatic. It does not make headlines when it happens. It happens quietly, incrementally, and entirely within the law.

The pattern is this: the legal and corporate mechanisms for resource exploitation consistently outpace the regulatory frameworks designed to govern them. This is not...

It isn't the shortage that reshapes geopolitics. It's who controls the shortage.

In the autumn of 1973, the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries announced an embargo on oil exports to the United States, Western Europe, and Japan. The stated reason was political. Retaliation for Western support of Israel during the Yom Kippur War. The actual mechanism was resource control.

Within months, the price of oil had quadrupled. Gasoline lines stretched around city blocks in...