with the collapse of the soviet :union:, vacuum of power emerged in the south caucasus. this matter has sparked trans-regional and regional powers competition. the newly established republics create challenges and opportunities for iran and turkey. the result of this situation is the competition between tehran and ankara in the region. this topic is highly important in regional equations becaus...

after the soviet union fragmentation, the attentions of regional and international countries have turned to this region for oil and gas discovery in the caspian basin. after that, this region enjoys more geopolitical importance increasingly. therefore, the main question is:” what factors can influence the new geopolitics of the caspian basin?” it seems that, some issues such as the lack of a...

We may be witnessing the emergence of a new ‘state capitalist’ normal, term this Forum proposes to problematise in its geopolitical dimensions. The growing prevalence state-sponsored entities (encompassing state enterprises, policy banks, and sovereign wealth funds) as leading vehicles economic activity is defining feature our times. This reassertion authority altering configurations corporate ...

This commentary reviews the arguments made in An et al.’s ‘Towards a Confucian Geopolitics’. Particularly, I consider main claim that form of strategic and/or ‘hybrid Confucianism’ has played significant role construction contemporary Chinese geopolitics. While accept aspects this argument, also raises further theoretical and empirical issues are immanent within work. draw attention to: (1) con...