â â â â â â â â  abstract â  this work was supported by the academy of korean studies of the republic of korea in year 2012-2013 (aks-2010-caa-2101) energy security has assumed newfound geopolitical importance at the outset of xxi century (moran and russell, 2008). diminishing fossil fuel supplies have led to fears of energy shortages, while rapid economic and population growth have fuelled the...

The aim of the article was to describe and assess geopolitical situation selected countries new Eastern Europe from point view balance power as an analytical category. These include Belarus, Moldova Ukraine. internal structure consists following points: discussion concept position Europe, then political strategies most important geostrategic countries, i.e. Russian Federation, EU, USA PRC towar...

Upon Brexit & Trade War, the research took a supply-side analysis in macroeconomic paradigm for purpose and cause of actions. In geopolitical competitions on crude oil resources between allied powers Russian hegemony, latter which has effective control over P. R. China’s multilateral behaviors, external induced that trade war, either by complete information intelligence or an unintended r...

This article examines the origins and operationalisation of concept a ‘geopolitical Commission’, which has been promoted by President European Commission Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. used to guide stronger co-ordination external aspects Commission's work. It is also symptomatic growing role strategic considerations in recent initiatives, particularly through objective strengthening EU's ‘op...

This article presents a case where securitisation of one state in another increased dramatically and exponentially. The scale intensity were unprecedented, as the range actors, tone language speech acts nonverbal acts. question is Russia Latvia over Russia’s war Ukraine starting 2022. Although was securitised by its smaller neighbour before war, sudden explosion 2022 differs from any recent dec...

The purpose of this article is to reexamine the ontology of geopolitical boundaries so that they can be better represented in ontologies designed for the semantic web. Previous work on this subject has divided geopolitical boundaries into fiat, bona fide, and force dynamic categories. This article challenges the existence of bona fide geopolitical boundaries on the basis that many of them lie s...

The Planet’s Pivot Area in Mackinder’s Theory The geopolitical situation of the early 21st century gave a new boost to studies of the regional structuralization principles for the geopolitical and geo-economic space of the entire Eurasian continent. This revived the conceptions formulated by Halford Mackinder in the early 20th century and his opponent, Nicholas Spykman, somewhat later. They off...

Abstract The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) currently faces a series major, historically unprecedented, challenges. Perhaps the most consequential these new threats is intensifying strategic, economic, and even institutional competition between United States China. ASEAN's rather predictable response to this geopolitical contest has been “hedge” avoid choosing two great powers. ...