The Doctrine
Trade, diplomacy, machines.
Doctoral work, point-of-view writing, and the long arguments behind the daily practice.
Abstract
How does trade infrastructure — exhibitions, platforms, conventions — function as soft diplomacy in the Europe–MENA corridor, and what changes when AI mediates the convening?
Thesis · I
B2B exhibitions are not commerce events. They are diplomatic instruments dressed in commercial clothing — venues where states, sectors, and capital negotiate publicly enough to commit and privately enough to back out.
Thesis · II
AI does not threaten this work; it changes its tempo. The convener's job becomes designing the model loop, not just the floor plan.
Drafts circulate privately. Public publication forthcoming.