COVID-19 has brought to unavoidable prominence what feminist geopolitics long insisted, namely that the global and intimate are always, everywhere, already entangled. Drawing on Anglo-American experiences of pandemic, this paper aims make two key arguments. The first is a conceptual approach perhaps uniquely placed sense COVID geographies. second propose account speaks back recent debates about...

How will the robot age transform warfare? What geopolitical futures are being imagined by the US military? This article constructs a robotic futurology to examine these crucial questions. Its central concern is how robots - driven by leaps in artificial intelligence and swarming - are rewiring the spaces and logics of US empire, warfare, and geopolitics. The article begins by building a more-th...

Civil wars and con‡ict can be understood from an economic point of view only if there is incomplete contracting. I examine such settings and …rst discuss sources of incomplete contracting, from geography and ethnic and social distance to external interventions due to geopolitics or the presence of rents. Yet, since war is destructive, the contending parties might normally be expected to settle ...

Prior work has shown the strong presence of regional and spatial context in linkages between regime characteristics and involvement in civil and international con°ict, but no adequate statistical model has explicitly captured these forces. Models that adequately re°ect the interdependence of actors and actions in world politics are faced with di±cult problems of estimation since the classical l...