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Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, a fan beloved classic for its gameplay, may now also be worth remembering due to the connections in its sci-fi plot and our reality. In the game’s version of 2025, “Cold War II” is well underway as technological advancement increases exponentially, creating national security vulnerabilities and a fearful…
Two competitions have dominated Europe’s summer agenda in 2024: the European Parliament elections and the UEFA EURO in Germany. While Spain’s victory has crowned Europe’s soccer champion, the election outcomes and the new European Commission will shape Europe’s role in 21st-century geopolitics. If at all, however, what makes these two competitions hang together? At first…
Navigating Uncertainty: Our Region in an Age of FluxBy Joseph Chinyong LiowWorld Scientific Press, Singapore, 2024 The era of untrammeled globalization and the enduring spirit of multilateralism of the post-Cold war milieu have faded. The Southeast Asian region is once again confronted by perennial uncertainties stemming from beyond its borders. This is the central theme…
Colin Flint, a geographer by training, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science at Utah State University. His research interests include geopolitics and peacebuilding. He is the author of Near and Far Waters: The Geopolitics of Seapower (Stanford University Press, 2024), Introduction to Geopolitics (Routledge, 4th ed. 2022), Geopolitical Constructs: The Mulberry Harbours, World War Two, and the…
The word geopolitics is commonplace. This should give us cause for concern, because the common usage is a form classic geopolitics that dates to the late 1800’s and fueled national rhetoric and militarization in the buildup to the two world wars. We cannot deny the contemporary global context of tensions between US and China, and…