The clean energy transition drives soaring demand for critical metals. In a review in this issue of One Earth, Vakulchuk and Overland show the vital role Central Asia could have mineral supply geopolitics. Here, I extend scope to an emerging mining hotspot, Greenland Arctic, discuss broader implications. world’s future needs will depend increasingly on minerals necessary technologies innovation...

The issue of regional integration has been widely analyzed and debated for a long time. Yet, there is still limited connection between issues geopolitical perspectives. With an analysis focused on Latin America, this study aims to map out theory practice subject. In doing so, the explores different points view in relation regions geopolitics, how these two elements are combined specific topic i...

Bringing together literatures on play, (video) games, and alter(native) geopolitics this paper explores how digital games offer playful encounters that challenge popular understandings of geopolitics. While geographical scholarship has exposed the ways video promote geopolitical militaristic cultures, concentrates disruptive qualities play. More specifically, focuses This War Mine (2014), a gam...

For French-speaking geographers, the term urban geopolitics refers to research stream that journal Hérodote developed analyse increasing complexity of and conflict in around territorial policies. their English-speaking counterparts, concept commonly a more recent approach among others militarisation space. Despite differences, this paper shows both approaches can be usefully combined. Indeed, c...

Recently, especially given the consequences of COVID-19, external migration processes have become more intense. In Kazakhstan and other neighboring post-Soviet countries, a certain social imbalance is associated with protracted transition period from Soviet past to order economy future. A widening gap exists between countries this region geopolitics; for example, states choose Western or Easter...

To contemplate discussing the strategic challenges in the Mediterranean at the present time without taking account of the geopolitics of the Sahel is simply unthinkable. The Sahel occupies a key location mid-way between the Mediterranean world and sub-Saharan Africa. A buffer zone but above all an area of contact and trade which cannot easily be controlled, the Sahel arc is fast becoming an end...