Geopolitics

Abstract

The word geopolitics points to the interface between two distinct ontological realms and scientific disciplines, geography, and politics. The first of these root words, “geography,” is not necessarily restricted in this context to traditional geographic concerns like climate or the Earth's physical surface, but entails a much broader spatial perspective concerned with scale and location, the size, shape, and boundaries of territories, and the processes by which territories are socially defined. The other root word, “politics,” points toward subfields of political science like international relations which are also focused on states and empires, borders and frontiers, international alliances and polarizations, the balance and imbalance of global power, and war, imperialism, and diplomacy (Burchill & Linklater 1996).

Critical viewpoints on the Bologna Process in Europe: Can we do otherwise?

“…It should be noted that neoliberalism and post-liberalism were problematized in the raw data but not in relation to each other and to the BP (that is, separately but not relationally); neither were the distinctions on and the interrelationship between globalization and geopolitics (cf. Khanna, 2008; Ritzer and Dean, 2015; Steinmetz, 2012) and their relation to the BP and future scenarios. The following future scenarios were observed in some of the studies: ideal scenarios to be developed in an emerging new world, future (imaginary) possibilities to be proposed which involve the BP as a reasonable inclusion, and scenarios to avoid in the future (e.g.…”

The Changing Geopolitical Economy of Transcaucasia under Multipolarity

“…The combination of this interpretivist mode with an actor-centered approach is very useful for international relations and strategic analysis, which both involve understanding the preferences, goals, values, and perceptions of global actors (Gürcan 2019a). This article's conceptual framework seeks to transcend the narrow boundaries of geopolitics understood as a political geographical approach invested in studying the politics of power in a geographical frame (Steinmetz 2012). Following Radhika Desai (2013), my strategic analysis draws on geopolitical economy, which underlines that there is an inextricable relation between politics and economics.…”

A figurational approach to soft power and sport events. The case of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™

“…This article starts with three weaknesses in soft power conceptualizations where a merger with Eliasian sociology might rejuvenate the term. First, applications of soft power to contemporary sport events should re-estimate the weight of prior developments ( 13 ) because of the influence accumulated by “old” relations and political institutions ( 14 ) in geopolitics, that is, “relations between the conduct of a politics of power oriented toward the international level and the geographic frame in which it is carried out” ( 15 ; cited and translated by 16 ). Second, due to the need for “a more nuanced understanding of power relations in world politics” ( 12 ), we should explore how soft power depends on the actor's placement in geopolitical networks (such as G7 countries or the Gulf Cooperation Council).…”