Focus: The ASML Way, by Marc Hijink

Act III — Fracture
Written By Paul Verhagen

Focus: The ASML Way - Inside the Power Struggle over the Most Complex Machine on Earth (2025)


Zooms in on the company that has probably been most exposed to the return of geopolitics: the Dutch-based company ASML. ASML anchors my argument that trade promotion and security policy can no longer be separated, and Hijink supplies the operational detail a book of my scope cannot.

Read it asking: ASML did not choose to become an instrument of foreign policy, could it have done anything different?

Paul Verhagen
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