Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2283489
A. Herranz-Surrallés
{"title":"The EU Energy Transition in a Geopoliticizing World","authors":"A. Herranz-Surrallés","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2283489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2283489","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"77 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139452251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2294803
Nora Naji, Darja Schildknecht
{"title":"Containing the ‘Suspect’ Other: Perpetuating Colonial Spaces Through a Global Counterterrorism Regime in Nairobi","authors":"Nora Naji, Darja Schildknecht","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2294803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2294803","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"83 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139390505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2276202
Takashi Yamazaki
{"title":"Contextualizing Borders in East Asia: An Introduction","authors":"Takashi Yamazaki","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2276202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2276202","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"57 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139390646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2284769
B. Schuetze
{"title":"‘Seizing the Moment’: Arab-Israeli normalization, infrastructure as a means to bypass politics and the promotion of an Israeli-Jordanian transit trade-route","authors":"B. Schuetze","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2284769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2284769","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"58 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139452667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2286287
Barbara Magalhães Teixeira
{"title":"Room to Grow and the Right to Say No: Theorizing the Liberatory Power of Peace in the Global South","authors":"Barbara Magalhães Teixeira","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2286287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2286287","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"103 31","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139391353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2273829
Elise Howard
ABSTRACTIn the Pacific Islands region, many leaders are resisting the global inequalities and fossil fuel burning that drive climate change, and are promoting human rather than state-centric security. Within this region, Pacific women contribute significantly to human security through top-down protection and bottom-up empowerment. Yet institutional bias at global and local levels means that efforts to address women’s climate vulnerabilities risk simply adding women into existing forums with a masculine and Eurocentric bias. Drawing on desktop sources, this essay demonstrates how gendered spaces and institutional bias lead to a devaluation or marginalisation of Pacific women’s work and interests and that such bias is a product of contemporary and historical colonial legacies. This means that women may be included but policy will still have gendered impacts. Ensuring human security is gender equal requires examination of institutional processes and unwritten rules to determine whose security is truly being protected. AcknowledgementWith thanks to Dr Kerryn Baker, Dr Tamara Nair and Angela Terrill for providing feedback on this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The Blue Pacific narrative draws on Hau’ofa’s reconstruction of the region’s size, dynamism and environmental custodianship as a counterpoint to Euro-American centric perspectives of the islands as small, remote and static (Citation1994).2. https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2007-06-16/climate-culprit-darfur
{"title":"Whose Security are We Protecting in a Time of Climate Change? How Gender Bias Affects Human Security for Pacific Women","authors":"Elise Howard","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2273829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2273829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn the Pacific Islands region, many leaders are resisting the global inequalities and fossil fuel burning that drive climate change, and are promoting human rather than state-centric security. Within this region, Pacific women contribute significantly to human security through top-down protection and bottom-up empowerment. Yet institutional bias at global and local levels means that efforts to address women’s climate vulnerabilities risk simply adding women into existing forums with a masculine and Eurocentric bias. Drawing on desktop sources, this essay demonstrates how gendered spaces and institutional bias lead to a devaluation or marginalisation of Pacific women’s work and interests and that such bias is a product of contemporary and historical colonial legacies. This means that women may be included but policy will still have gendered impacts. Ensuring human security is gender equal requires examination of institutional processes and unwritten rules to determine whose security is truly being protected. AcknowledgementWith thanks to Dr Kerryn Baker, Dr Tamara Nair and Angela Terrill for providing feedback on this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The Blue Pacific narrative draws on Hau’ofa’s reconstruction of the region’s size, dynamism and environmental custodianship as a counterpoint to Euro-American centric perspectives of the islands as small, remote and static (Citation1994).2. https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/articles/2007-06-16/climate-culprit-darfur","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"56 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2270936
Hanna Leonardsson
The literature on peace has been filled with notions of peacebuilding in crisis or creating more problems than it solves. However, as peacebuilding is critiqued for not fulfilling its promises, the nuances of peace and violence present in peacebuilding practices are often left ignored. Arguing that peace is a continuum of peace and violence seen by understanding peace as embodied, spatial, and political, the article analyses peacebuilding practices creating a conflictual Lebanese peace. The article looks closer at three such practices: service provision, local interactions, and Lebanese local governance. Through empirical material, the article illustrates how service provision, local interactions and local governance are performed through power relations sustaining a continuum of peace and violence. As such, the article argues that rather than a continuum between peace and violence, Lebanese peacebuilding is a simultaneous process of peace and violence. This questions the assumed opposition between violence and peace and claims that by emphasising peace as embodied, situated, and political we can discern different peace(s) more peaceful for some than others.
{"title":"Peace Through Violence and Violence Through Peace: Peacebuilding Practices and a Conflictual Peace in Lebanon","authors":"Hanna Leonardsson","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2023.2270936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2023.2270936","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on peace has been filled with notions of peacebuilding in crisis or creating more problems than it solves. However, as peacebuilding is critiqued for not fulfilling its promises, the nuances of peace and violence present in peacebuilding practices are often left ignored. Arguing that peace is a continuum of peace and violence seen by understanding peace as embodied, spatial, and political, the article analyses peacebuilding practices creating a conflictual Lebanese peace. The article looks closer at three such practices: service provision, local interactions, and Lebanese local governance. Through empirical material, the article illustrates how service provision, local interactions and local governance are performed through power relations sustaining a continuum of peace and violence. As such, the article argues that rather than a continuum between peace and violence, Lebanese peacebuilding is a simultaneous process of peace and violence. This questions the assumed opposition between violence and peace and claims that by emphasising peace as embodied, situated, and political we can discern different peace(s) more peaceful for some than others.","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"15 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135972965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2022.2094778
Anatole Boute
ABSTRACT The common characterisation of European Union (EU) and Russian external energy relations as liberal versus realist does not do justice to the efforts of both entities to shape energy market regulation in their shared neighbourhood. This article aims to contribute to the understanding of energy regulation as a tool of strategic influence by examining from a geopolitical perspective how the EU, Russia and, to a lesser extent, China attempt to shape gas pricing and pipeline access regimes in the post-Soviet Eurasian space. A geopolitical analysis of regulatory convergence in the region helps understand how liberal concepts of energy regulation acquire a strategic function when exported to contested spheres of influence, with important consequences for the legitimacy and acceptability of these regulatory models. The EU, Russia and China recognise common principles of gas market regulation at the domestic level, but geopolitical considerations, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, prevent the implementation of these principles at the regional level, hindering the transition of this contested neighbourhood towards more efficient energy systems and reduced dependence on Russian supplies.
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ABSTRACT This article aims to explain why some central governments accept to hold independence referendums while others refuse to do so. For this purpose, this investigation assesses a series of seven hypotheses on 131 international cases of secession consultations from 1944 to 2021 extracted from an updated version of the Contested sovereignty dataset. The results of the logistic regression model identify four relevant variables. In the first place, the competition/proximity model and the time variable explain the support brought by central governments for the organisation of self-determination referendums. Additionally, the study shows that the quality of democracy influences the decision to allow minorities to hold independence consultations. Finally, and with a lower level of significance, it is also argued that periods of previous violence incite host state authorities to agree to hold self-determination referendums.
{"title":"Comparing Independence Referendums: Why Do Some States Accept Them while Others Do Not?","authors":"Enrique Sánchez Sánchez, Jean-Baptiste Harguindéguy, Almudena Sánchez Sánchez, Alistair Cole","doi":"10.1080/14650045.2022.2082960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2082960","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article aims to explain why some central governments accept to hold independence referendums while others refuse to do so. For this purpose, this investigation assesses a series of seven hypotheses on 131 international cases of secession consultations from 1944 to 2021 extracted from an updated version of the Contested sovereignty dataset. The results of the logistic regression model identify four relevant variables. In the first place, the competition/proximity model and the time variable explain the support brought by central governments for the organisation of self-determination referendums. Additionally, the study shows that the quality of democracy influences the decision to allow minorities to hold independence consultations. Finally, and with a lower level of significance, it is also argued that periods of previous violence incite host state authorities to agree to hold self-determination referendums.","PeriodicalId":47839,"journal":{"name":"Geopolitics","volume":"29 1","pages":"1868 - 1891"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139316014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-20DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2023.2266380
Alexandru-Stefan Goghie
ABSTRACTThe concept of ‘new’ state capitalism has garnered increasing attention among scholars due to the emergence of a polymorphism of state interventions in recent years. These interventions are now being examined through a spatial lens, departing from the previously dominant methodological nationalism. In this case, the ‘new’ Chinese state capitalism is particularly noteworthy. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has adopted a spatial state-led strategy to facilitate the Renminbi (RMB) transnationalization. This strategic approach transcends traditional national boundaries, stretching across different spaces. Our research focuses on the specific case of Luxembourg in relation to this spatial strategy. We assert that the RMB transnationalization represents a distinctive feature of the ‘new’ Chinese state capitalism, as it is underpinned by explicit Chinese state policies, unlike other currencies whose global use was the result of growing economies. Moreover, we contend that the PRC’s explicit policies regarding the RMB do not aim for full convertibility and widespread acceptance like the US-Dollar (USD). Instead, they prioritise its role as a trade currency for international trade settlements, as the main goal is to reduce the dependence on the USD and to create a stable International Monetary System (IMS) that will bring benefits to its trade-oriented economic model. Overall, this paper significantly contributes to the existing literature by offering a novel perspective on the RMB transnationalization within the framework of the ‘new’ Chinese state capitalism, emphasising China’s quest for autonomy from the USD. Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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