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Quo vadis, Rusia? între ”Eurasia” şi ”noua politică estică a Moscovei”
Octavian SERGENTU This study attempts to make a proper assessment of geopolitical shifts that achieved Russia by advancing geopolitical paradigm "Eurasia". On the one hand, Moscow launches new geopolitical project "Eurasian Union" and on the other hand change their behavior in the Asia Pacific. … [Read more...]
“The Third Wave”: Geopolitics of Postmodernism
Vladimir Vasilievici KARYAKIN This article is devoted to the new geopolitical conception, constructed on the base of V. Stepin's ideas of post-nonclassic conception, the theory of self-organizing systems of H. Haken, a technology of “controlled chaos” by S. Mann and author’s synergetic vision of … [Read more...]
The Changing Geopolitics of Energy
Zeljko BJELJAC The paper discusses the changes in the global energy balance and the resulting geopolitics, which have in the recent years emerged as a result of the interplay of factors such as the rapidly increasing world’s energy consumption and the shift of the source of consumption eastwards to … [Read more...]
The Geopolitics of the British Isles
Geoffrey SLOAN In the discipline of International Relations, there are few topics that have been as condemned, misunderstood or poorly utilized as geopolitics. Despite a recent revival of interest, a negative attitude still manifests itself in the early twenty first century. In 2001, the British … [Read more...]
Under the Mighty Weight of Geopolitics: Romania’s Relations with Latvia During the Interwar Period
Silviu MILOIU This article discusses the relations between Romania and Latvia during the interwar period as an example of small and mid-sized states’ behavior in the geopolitical environment of the third and fourth decades of the 20th century. The article is not, however, focused on the Romanian … [Read more...]
Ukraine and a new Role in Geopolitics of Energy
Sohrab ASGARI End of the cold war was an important turn point to world’s old order. Main changes happened after the cold war. The bipolar order had overshadowed political structure of the world and also had divided it into two main parts. Two big political clubs (West and East) struggled to expand … [Read more...]
Rethinking and Reshaping Ukraine’s Positioning in the Spheres of Influence, Domination, and Integration: Geopolitics, Geoeconomy and Geomilitary
Isa MULAJ As the 20th anniversary of the fall of communism and disintegration of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) is approaching, Ukraine’s position from some perspectives can still be considered as unsettled or being shaped. After two decades of independence as a non-aligned … [Read more...]
Geopolitical Fears, Geoeconomic Hopes, and the Responsibilities of Geography
Matthew SPARKE Geographers have a responsibility to examine persistently, collaboratively, and critically the geographical grounds of hope and fear.We can help debunk false hopes and groundless fears, and in so doing we can also advance more sensible hopes based on more embodied and accountable … [Read more...]
America’s Foreign Policy under President Obama: Perceptions, Realities, Expectations
Nicholas DIMA The basic theme of this essay is that the new American President Barak Obama, together with his administration and the Congress which is dominated by members of the Democrat Party, could change the course of the domestic policy of the United States. However, from a Foreign Policy … [Read more...]