Greenland is an enormous hunk of ice, three times as big as Texas, with a narrow fringe along the southern shore where a few Eskimos and fewer Caucasians scratch out an existence. During World War II the United States spread a protecting wing over this inhospitable territory ... Greenland groans under a ponderous icecap that leaves only a slim margin of land sticking out around the edges. (Rouc...

The first process was geopolitical, and had to do with the need to provide security for the fledgling state from external threats. This included not only threats to the Israel’s existence, but also threats to the economic well being of its population and its capacity for future growth through the absorption of large segments of the Jewish Diaspora. Water issues were central to Israel’s geopolit...

"Tourism in European microstates and dependencies: geopolitics, scale resource limitations." Journal of Heritage Tourism, 17(2), pp. 245–246

This commentary begins by outlining current debates on the notion of Anthropocene from a critical perspective. Subsequently, it will discuss how Pugh and Chandler (2021) directly address such problematic their work contributes to pluralising contemporary academic Anthropocene. Their previous engagements are no stranger questions epistemic discrimination in broad fields geography, geopolitics, i...

This commentary reviews An et al.’s (2021) article, ‘Towards Confucian Geopolitics’. It first acknowledges the article’s achievement in highlighting importance of reading geopolitics by excavating Chinese traditions and cultural perspectives. However, also points out that article has failed to understand complex nature ideology differentiating between real-world political struggle idealism. The...

Abstract How do Brazil’s defence documents incorporate natural resources and critical infrastructure as political strategic components of the national energy security framework? After presenting contemporary international landscape on subject, which is marked by rising powers geopolitics, paper explains theory conceptual foundations that support claim a securitization movement relates to in res...

The relevance of the research topic is characterized by importance studying foundations classical geopolitics. In article, authors reveal meaning geopolitics and its importance. main goal article to consider theories views that form theoretical basis as a science. territory occupied state, size, composition, configuration geopolitical factor. Thus, geopolitics, from point view, primarily scienc...

This article deals with the significance of Mini Schengen Initiative in shaping new geopolitical configuration Western Balkans. In theoretical terms, discusses changing meaning borders contemporary world and buffer zones as a subject research political geography geopolitics. methodological authors provide an overview political-territorial development Balkans then implement approaches geopolitic...

The contributions in this Forum analyse the Russian war against Ukraine from micro perspective of everyday life, conveyed by scholars who have been impacted at a variety personal levels. Framed within existential threat that continues to endanger Ukrainians and Ukraine, collected here embrace messiness lived experience away grand narratives circulate global scales. Instead, authors explore proc...