Moderation has been a recurring theme in international politics, particularly the politics of Middle East, where foreign and regional actors have often categorized others themselves as either “moderates” or “radicals.” However, very few works sought to deconstruct meaning moderation this context. Those that addressed issue mostly treated Western attempt simplify geopolitics dichotomize justify ...

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...

This article explores the intersection between geopolitics, international relations and film. The first section examines how popular geopolitics and related areas of International Relations have engaged with film and Hollywood. Thereafter, it considers the interrelationship between Hollywood, the Bush administration and the post-9/11 era in an attempt to better understand some of the contours o...

geopolitical imagination, by definition, is the competition between powers in forming individuals’, institutions’ and political factors’ perception of the characteristics and contents of geographical space, on the basis of their intended interests. in this article, as a case study, the us perception of the :union: of soviet socialist republics during the cold war era is analysed. the authors ar...

the concept of geopolitics which means geographical policy in persian language has a long-distant way as a science which has been derived from the root of geography science. in this paper we have tried to study this science in three historical cross-sections and then we can extract different geostrategies from that. these three sections have been called classical geopolitics, new and special ge...

The farmer-herder conflicts (FHCs) in Nigeria have aggravated recent years, and so too has its scholarly inquiry. However, there is yet a critical geopolitics analysis of the despite their geopolitical manifestations. This paper explores imagination based on “ Grammar Geopolitics approach” Gearóid Tuathail. Data used were newspapers’ stories supplemented by government independent bodies’ report...