Red Sea Futures | Substack

Red Sea Legal Letter * Issue 3

A Squeeze In Aden + Added War Risk

Jul 12 • Red Sea Futures

Somaliland, Socotra, and The Price of Oil

RED SEA BRIEF, Issue # 14 · Covering 30 June – 8 July 2026

Jul 8 • Red Sea Futures

Red Sea Fragility Tracker * Issue 1

Following markers of systemic fragility across the Red Sea basin: economic, political, military, paramilitary, and ecological stress, and how they…

Jun 23 • Red Sea Futures

Red Sea Legal Letter * Issue 2

Tolls banned, but payments continue

Jun 22 • Red Sea Futures

The Red Sea Brief * Issue 13

A survey of the events and trends impacting the Red Sea and its basin states over the week ending June 19, 2026

Jun 19 • Red Sea Futures

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Iran's Not-So-Phantom Tollbooth

Apr 7 • Red Sea Futures

The Red Sea is a System, Not A Boundary

Jan 14

War Over (On Paper). Edges (Very) Hot

May 5 • Red Sea Futures

The Toll Booth and The Trigger

Mar 31 • Red Sea Futures

Recent posts

Red Sea Legal Letter * Issue 1

Paying The Hormuz Toll Becomes A Crime / June 1-8, 2026

Jun 10 • Red Sea Futures

The Red Sea Brief * Issue 12

The Events and Trends Influencing the Red Sea and Red Sea Basin Over the Week Ending June 7, 2026

Jun 8 • Red Sea Futures

Framework, Then Fizzle

Red Sea Brief · Issue 10 · 22-28 May 2026

May 29 • Red Sea Futures

Workarounds Gel Amidst New Threats Of War

Red Sea Brief · Issue 9 · 4-12 May 2026

May 13 • Red Sea Futures

War Over (On Paper). Edges (Very) Hot

Red Sea Futures Brief · Issue 8 · 27 April - 4 May 2026 ·

May 5 • Red Sea Futures

Is Iran’s Deep State Going to Market? A Red Sea Perspective

Intelligence Brief #7: Covering April 22-29

Apr 29 • Red Sea Futures

The Iran War’s Long Fuse

The conflict has ratcheted up another notch without a clean outcome. How did we get here?

Published on The Middle East-Told Slant • Apr 21

The Open-and-Shut Strait

Red Sea Intelligence Brief #6 · April 13–20, 2026

Apr 20 • Red Sea Futures

Red Sea Reverberations

Red Sea Intelligence Brief #5 - For The Week Ending April 14, 2026

Apr 15 • Red Sea Futures

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This Substack is composed of the Red Sea Brief, the Red Sea Legal Letter, and the Red Sea Fragility Report, covering significant events of the previous week related to politics, law and regulation, and social trends and environmental change.

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