FDI is now a frontline issue in the geopolitical contest for economic power, and investors are contending with an environment marked by rapid policy shifts, heightened scrutiny and growing uncertainty.

This edition of the Foreign Investment Monitor explores how shifting political and regulatory forces are redefining global investment:

• World war tariff: Is the global trade conflict redrawing the FDI map?

The Trump administration’s Liberation Day tariffs have upended the international trade order. What could this mean for foreign investment?

• Nippon Steel’s unprecedented resurrection: Right answer for the wrong reason

President Trump’s revival of the Nippon Steel deal signals a new era of politicized investment review in the United States. As CFIUS becomes a tool of domestic strategy, foreign investors face greater uncertainty – and higher stakes.

• Japan’s foreign investment regime gets sharper teeth: Are investors ready for the bite?

Japan is tightening its grip on foreign investment in the name of national security. With new rules and broader oversight, even low-risk deals may now face scrutiny.

• Peeking into the black box: What UK court rulings reveal about national security reviews

Court rulings are offering rare insights into the UK’s national security review regime. For investors, the message is clear: process matters, and preparation pays.

• Politics, power, and investment: Transatlantic developments in FDI control

As foreign investment regimes harden across the transatlantic corridor, scrutiny is becoming sharper, broader and more political. In the EU, Dublin and Ottawa, once-routine deals are increasingly being viewed through a national security lens.

Around the world, we see that governments are recalibrating their foreign investment regimes – tightening controls, expanding oversight, and placing national interest at the heart of deal-making. As the rules evolve, so too must investor strategies.