Geografía financiera y paraísos fiscales. Implicaciones geopolíticas

Zusammenfassung

The monitoring of transnational capital movements to offshore financial centers is an aspect that may be important for national security. The set of spatial relationships that make up the existing network of companies in the Panama papers has been analyzed. It is result reveals the existence of a complex global cartography of spatial relationships between numerous screen societies, where legal and political differences between spaces are a key aspect to understand their dynamics. This phenomenon could create internal problems in a State, both in terms of social cohesion and in its capacity to finance the maintenance of the welfare state. Secondly, it has an impact in terms of international relations, derived from the strategic dependence with respect to large global financial companies located in certain nodes, especially in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Singapore and Switzerland. These conglomerates design an international financial map that decides the places of origin, transit and destination of capital. Their decisions in this matter, especially in key aspects such as the public debt market, can help to consolidate or overthrow governments.