The movement of people across borders, and the varied governmental responses to that movement, is crucial importance contemporary geopolitics. Agency mobility are two central themes in these debates. This Forum makes an intervention into such debates, by contributing conceptualisation agency as a co-constitutive phenomena, seeking collaborative response question how rethink paradigm political a...

Traditional themes of our study of the state, including cores, peripheries, boundaries, national identities, treaties and laws are important in our understanding of the virtual or cyberstate. These fluid, three and four-dimensional worlds, associated with speed, networks and the compression of tie and space, call for a renewed focus on contemporary topics facing a polycentric, internetconnected...

The post 9/11 Western World has been heavily marked by a near nearparanoid emphasis on the catastrophic threats posed by so-called cyber terrorism. Such cyber terror attacks, however, have, so far, been noticeable by their absence. At the same time a much more hidden, but increasingly pervasive form of forced demodernisation state infrastructural warfare is emerging as a central component of co...

Interactions between countries originate from diverse aspects such as geographic proximity, trade, socio-cultural habits, language, religions, etc. Geopolitics studies the influence of a country’s geographic space on its political power and its relationships with other countries. This work reveals the potential of Wikipedia mining for geopolitical study. Actually, Wikipedia offers solid knowled...

With the rise of China and the implementation of the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” strategy, research on geo-economics between China and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries has become increasingly important. Current studies mainly focus on influencing factors, while there is little consideration about how these influencing factors act on geo-economic relationships. Ther...

The Syrian civil war which broke out in March 2011 further destabilized the Middle East general and Levant particular. From among many implications of this conflict such as deaths more than 400,000 civilians refugee crisis, it caused heavy involvement regional (such Islamic Republic Iran, GCC states, Jordan, Turkey) trans-regional (the United States, Russia, European countries) actors. Iran has...