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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"critical geopolitics"”.
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NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya, Afghanistan and their impact on relations with Russia after the Cold War
… achieve the aim and hypothesis of the study, the critical geopolitical approach is chosen as a theoretical framework.;The schematic critical geopolitics conceptualization of Gearoid O. Tuathail is used as the method of research. This thesis mostly pays attention to three essential parts of the …
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Discourses of danger: Robert Strausz-Hupe, geopolitics and American foreign policy, 1939-1961
… was at the forefront of popularisng the term ‘geopolitics’ and establishing a geopolitical approach to international relations in the United States. Despite this very he is a figure virtually ignored within the field of geography. Using the ‘methods’ of the newly emerging post structuralist …
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The Actorness of the European Union in Arctic Policymaking
… relations theories of constructivism and critical geopolitics, this dissertation investigates the EU’s ‘actorness’, defined as an actor’s capacity to imagine its own and others’ roles in a policy context. Furthermore, this research proposes a revised use of the concept of actorness as a …
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Reinventing geopolitical codes in the post-Cold War world with special reference to international terrorism
… and the processes underpinning these. From a critical realist perspective the study uses a comparison between Europe, where regionalization is particularly noticeable, and the hegemonic United States, in order to explore how the non-state global terrorist actor and the regional European actor …
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Regulating Geopolitical Space: EU Interaction with East Africa
… informed and interrogated by drawing on critical geopolitics and allied work. Furthermore, I argue that the failure to engage critically with the EU's relations with developing countries and external perceptions thereof, both in the civilian power discourse and on the part of European …
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ArctiC-EUrope relations: A case-study of inter-regional co-construction and its geopolitical impacts
… method. Theoretically, I combined Anglo-Saxon critical geopolitics with the French/Lacoste school of geopolitics to create an analytical framework enabling inter-regional comparisons. Part II provides a historical analysis of ArctiC-EUrope relations pre-2008, adding context to current relations …
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Territorial Shock and Fragmented Geopolitical Culture: The New Geography of Armenia and Siunik
… since 2020. Drawing on the literature of critical geopolitics as well as fieldwork conducted in Armenia, the dissertation argues that the shock and trauma of the war has caused deep disruption and fragmentation in the geopolitical culture of Armenia, which remains in crisis. There are …
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Landscape of Ideas: The Rise of Chinese International Development Thinking
… as an economic and geopolitical force, but as a critical intellectual project. It draws on nine months’ fieldwork in Beijing as well as the Morogoro Region in Tanzania and China’s Yunnan Province on the China-Laos border. The recent rise of Chinese international development thinking first put in …
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The Political Geography of Regional Diplomacy in the Russian Federation
… and participant observation, this thesis critically analyses the contemporary international activities of Russian regions in this contested environment. Multi-sited fieldwork specifically focuses on three case study regions, each heavily engaged in paradiplomacy, but acting through deeply …
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When better worlds collide: historical essays on the politics of international development and social science
… sciences. Culminating in a larger metaphysical geopolitics at play, it ties to a politics of science, knowledge, truth, and expertise—including the political role of the university. The thesis thus closes by outlining a larger programme across interdisciplinary, international, and …