Recently, especially given the consequences of COVID-19, external migration processes have become more intense. In Kazakhstan and other neighboring post-Soviet countries, a certain social imbalance is associated with protracted transition period from Soviet past to order economy future. A widening gap exists between countries this region geopolitics; for example, states choose Western or Easter...

The book Critical Geopolitics: Politics of Writing Global Space was first published twenty-five years ago. In this article, I briefly discuss the geopolitical and intellectual sources inspiration for development Geopolitics as a distinctive approach within Anglo-American political geography. doing so, distinguish it from other concurrent critical approached to International Relations world-syst...

Rather than assume that there is some universal “right way” to engage social media platforms, we interrogate how the location-based social media practice known as “jumping” played out on the popular service Foursquare. We use this case to investigate how a “global” or universal system is constructed with an imagined user in mind, one who enjoys a particular type of mobility and experience of pl...

We present initial findings of an ongoing effort to endow the key players in a nation-state model with intelligent behaviors. The model is based on resource exchange as the fundamental interaction between agents. In initial versions, model agents were severely limited in their ability to respond and adapt to changes in their environment. By modeling agents with a broader range of capabilities, ...

In the 21st century, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly transforming instruments of power and contributing to intensifying rivalry on dynamics balance power. context Central Asian geopolitics, China’s expanding AI do not only serve for its economic growth national power, but embody future areas uncertainty in Sino-Russian relations. Despite current state a kind 'entente ...

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Whatever happened to systemic analysis in the study of international relations? According to Karen Rasler and William Thompson in Puzzles of the Democratic Peace: Theory, Geopolitics and the Transformation of World Politics, at least part of the answer lies in the deluge of dyadic analyses associated with the rise of democratic peace research in the 1990s. However, the ‘‘abandonment of a system...

This essay advances an affective agenda in urban geopolitics that studies the everyday felt experience of terrorism. It takes as examples relations between spatial politics and atmospheres Place de la République (Paris) Bourse/Beursplein (Brussels) aftermath terrorist attacks 2015 2016. Intersecting feminist non-representational geographies, bridges geographical with experiential accounts geopo...