Neoliberal Geopolitics

Claiming (back) the land: the geopolitics of Egyptian and South African land and water grabs

“…While Luttwak (1990) has claimed geopolitics has been overtaken by geoeconomics after the Cold War ended, others have pronounced the arrival of a 'new geopolitics'. Roberts et al (2003) for example posited a liberal geopolitics, with the free market as panacea, integration in globalisation. Klare (2003) for example claims the 'old geopolitics' died out as acceptable discourse after Hitler's abuse of the Lebensraum doctrine.…”

The ‘revenge’ of political geographers

“…Nobody doubts, I think, that political geographers know well how to critically engage geopolitical representations. Past critiques of Kaplan (Dalby, 1996;Dalby, 2007), as well as Barnett (Roberts et al, 2003) and Friedman (Sparke, forthcoming) -not to mention the long list of critiques of Fukuyama, Ohmae, and Huntington -stand as good examples. Yet, the risk is that academic geographers might content themselves with a role of critics of others' geopolitical representations rather than proposing concrete alternative ways to deal with the here and now of geopolitical problems.…”

Geopolitics and family in Palestine

“…Hyndman (2004: 309) has argued for more feminist geopolitical studies that are distinguished from critical geopolitics "by adding a potentially reconstructive political dimension" (see also Hyndman 2001, Dowler & Sharp 2001, Secor 2001, and similar arguments have been made about the need for a more normative dimension within critical geopolitics itself (Megoran 2008). Roberts et al (2003) have argued that a neoliberal geopolitics is needed to understand contemporary political geographies in light of neoliberalism and globalization, while Cowen & Smith (2009: 24) argue that "contemporary shifts in the spatialization of political, economic and social power… lead beyond geopolitics", and thus are better captured by a geo-economic conception of space. Dalby (2008: 415) argues that it is possible to use these varied approaches to inform critical geopolitical scholarship, rather than displacing it.…”