Beyond Geography: How Strategic Infrastructure Stacks Transform Energy, Data and Logistics Connectivity into Regional Value; Greece and the Emerging Infrastructure Architecture of Southeast Europe

A state's ability to integrate energy, data and logistics flows into adaptive national capabilities determines its national competitiveness, resilience and influence. The paper proposes a strategic stack architecture that integrates geographic position, strategic flow systems and ecosystem orchestration into higher-order national capabilities, supported by institutional trust and security. The framework moves beyond classical static geopolitics to argue that sustainable strategic competitive advantage does not emerge from isolated physical assets, but from the state's ability become a preferred, trusted and continuously adaptable node within a network of international corridors. The Southeast Europe initially and Greece ultimately are used as illustrative cases to show how a peripheral economy can align with global capital markets and technology ecosystems to convert strategic infrastructure assets into long-term regional value.