From a critique to self-evolving (inter)discipline: Critical geopolitics vs. popular geopolitics

An Ontological Critique of Critical Geopolitics in Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Simon Dalby

Introduction: Philosophical research in the study of political geography in Iran is very limited. Among the existing cases, we encounter a kind of theoretical confusion that results from a lack of sufficient scientific and philosophical accuracy. Therefore, this study seeks to address the critical philosophical geopolitical critique in the writings of Ó Tuathail and Dalby by pointing out the ne...

Gas Geopolitics: Visions to 2040

10 Materialising Greenland within a critical arctic geopolitics

Greenland is an enormous hunk of ice, three times as big as Texas, with a narrow fringe along the southern shore where a few Eskimos and fewer Caucasians scratch out an existence. During World War II the United States spread a protecting wing over this inhospitable territory ... Greenland groans under a ponderous icecap that leaves only a slim margin of land sticking out around the edges. (Rouc...

The Fetish of Geopolitics

Gopal balakrishnan is one of the foremost experts in the Anglo-American world on the life and work of Carl Schmitt, and I am grateful for his response in nlr 68, ‘The Geopolitics of Separation’, to my essay on the thinker, ‘Decisions and Indecisions’, in nlr 67. Balakrishnan’s intellectual biography of Schmitt, The Enemy, remains, according to one eminent voice in the field, ‘the best English-l...

Ukraine: not only a matter of geopolitics.

Ukraine is once again at a political crossroads. Like many of the world’s troubled nations, its presentday borders refl ect historical events that paid little attention to the national identities of those involved, such as the westward expansion after World War 2 into what had been Polish territory, and Nikita Khrushchev’s unexpected 1954 gift from Russia to Ukraine of Crimea. Just like Russia ...