Navigating Geopolitical Risk
Thinking for a More Complex International Environment
The world is more interconnected than ever before. A new strategic geography has emerged, which is more urgent and claustrophobic than in any previous era in history. The technological revolutions that have shrunk the globe have not reduced the importance of geography but rather magnified it as distant corners of the world can influence one another in a manner without historic parallel. Athena provides a guide to this world.
We provide clarity to chaos
What We Offer
Our team specializes in examining the impacts of history and geography on government affairs, geopolitics, international economics, and maritime affairs. Each of these topics constitutes an of area of expertise for our team, and each of them influences the other. Understanding the linkages between these areas, as well as the impact of history and geography on these areas, promises to reveal the safest path through an infernally complex world. We provide clarity to chaos.
Athena’s researchers excel at applying interdisciplinary analysis to develop and manage projects that help our clients develop the best strategies to approach a rapidly changing competitive dynamic.
This includes identifying the long and short-term impacts of uncertain competitive environments for both governments and private industry clients, assessing changes in global trends, and assessing areas of competitive advantage and disadvantages for our clients.
In addition, we seek to educate our clients and help them develop their own strategic and policy acumen to make the best decisions either for their constituents or their business.
Our pledge is not to always know all of the answers in advance; rather, it is always to know how to ask the right questions.
In an age facing the threat of destruction at the hands of weapons whose capabilities are increasingly difficult to fathom, the price of frivolity is no longer affordable. A society that remembers the upheaval that gave rise to the peace it enjoys will have the resolve to sustain it, while those unburdened by the recollection of history court disaster, for tragedy is only avoided by its premonition, and such foresight can only come from a study of history.
— Brandon M. Patterson
Principal and Founder of Athena Strategic Policy