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Geopolitical Concepts

• Simon Dalby 1: Security Definition, Otherness, Cold War, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke
• Simon Dalby 2: Discourses, threats, dichotomies, USSR communism, Al-Qaida terrorism
• Simon Dalby 3: Climate change, humanity, capitalism, modernity, geographers
• Gertjan Dijkink: Geopolitical Knowledge 1 - the Netherlands, Bosnia and the language of power
• Gertjan Dijkink: Geopolitical Knowledge 2 - Dutch, French and American newspapers on Afghanistan
• Jason Dittmer: Popular geopolitics, culture and representations
• Dale Walton: World order, Heartland, European sea powers, post-Columbian Epoch
• Dale Walton: Revolutions in strategic perspective (RSP) and military affairs (RMA)
• Dale Walton: Great Powers, US-China relationship, non-state actors, 21st century

Geopolitical Traditions

• Federico Bordonaro: Rediscovering Spykman
• David Criekemans: The work of Harold and Margaret Sprout and its continued relevance today
• Leonhardt van Efferink: The definition of geopolitics
• Ian Klinke: Five minutes for critical geopolitics: A slightly provocative introduction
• Virginie Mamadouh: Geopolitics in the 2000s
• Igor Okunev: Russian geopolitics

Geopolitical Trends

• Chitty / Dalby: 2011 Geopolitical Review - social media / Durban climate conference
• Cohen: 2011 Geopolitical Review - global events and US foreign policy
• Crampton / Elden: 2011 Geopolitical Review - WikiLeaks / 'Occupy' protests
• Mamadouh: 2011 Geopolitical Review - financialization and resistance
• Mamadouh / Rogers: 2010 Geopolitical Review - European Union
• Rakisits / Reynolds: 2010 Geopolitical Review - South Asia
• Various contributors: 2010 Geopolitical Review - trends, events and risks
• Bordonaro: 2009 Geopolitical Review - power politics in a globalized world
• Various contributors: 2009 Geopolitical Review - trends, events and risks

Geopolitical Scholars

Scholars A-C

• Marco Antonsich: Geographical determinism, Arctic exploitation, Geopolitica Italiana
• Mark Bassin: Naturalistic principles, Eurasian civilisation, ideological discourses
• Federico Bordonaro: Demography, Black Sea-Caspian region, strategic territories
• Pádraig Carmody: New Scramble for Africa, Fortune Global 500, China's flexigemony
• Saul Cohen: Great powers, shatterbelts, gateways, geostrategic regions
• Gyula Csurgai: Representations, power rivalries, non-state actors, géopolitique

Scholars D

• Simon Dalby: Environmental change, security, injustice, power, humanity, evil empire
• Elena dell'Agnese: Power-knowledge, poststructural approach, Catholic Church
• Gertjan Dijkink: Geopolitical visions, national identity, Balkans, ethnic cleansing
• Jason Dittmer: Cultural perceptions, comic books, superheroes, Captain America
• Klaus Dodds: Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas, Antarctic, mapping, films, cartoons
• Lorraine Dowler: Women studies, gender, sexuality, political violence, militarization
• Emmanuel Dupuy: Military sociology, strategic thinking, threats, intelligence
• Gérard Dussouy: Systemic geopolitics, physical geography, reductionist theories

Scholars E-L

• Fabrizio Eva: Territorial trap, shared and divided spaces, Clash of Civilizations
• Colin Flint: Unjust wars, nation-states, nuclear weapons proliferation
• Henk van Houtum: European borders, immigrants, Self-Other representations
• Jennifer Hyndman: Unilateralism, torture, detention, Tsunamis, humanitarian aid
• Alex Jeffrey: Bosnian war, reconciliation, civil society, transitional justice
• Alun Jones: supranational governance, interdependencies, prenegotiation, Iceland
• Gerry Kearns: Halford Mackinder, contextual history, comparative approach
• Merje Kuus: Knowledge production, human agency, everyday practices
• Frédéric Lasserre: Territorial discourses, mental images, space-time, South China Sea

Scholars M-P

• Virginie Mamadouh: Media studies, inclusion-exclusion, geoinformational technology
• Nick Megoran: Peace, Christian values, Jesus, the Bible, Central Asia, narratives
• Katharyne Mitchell: Geoeconomics, Micro/Macro Scales, Fascism, Feminist Theory
• Sami Moisio: Neoliberal hegemony, political economy, capitalism, world systems
• Philippe Moreau Defarges: Overpopulation, geopolitical actors, world governance
• Alexander Murphy: Nationalism, sovereignty, social constructs, human rights
• Heinz Nissel: Human geography, politics, power, space, future of mankind, Geopolitik
• Joe Painter: Cold War, state-centrism, world hunger, rich-poor, anthropology

Scholars Q-Z

• Claude Rakisits: Religion, ethnicity, rise of China, global energy competition
• Nathalène Reynolds: Gender studies, eurocentric approach, communism in India
• Stéphane Rosière: Third World, globalisation, imperialism, domination, migration, walls, barriers
• Paul Routledge: Alter-Geopolitics, nuclear disarmament, civil disobedience
• Jo Sharp: Feminist geopolitics, postcolonialism, common sense, Reader's Digest
• David Slater: North-South relations, ethnocentric thinking, postcolonial thought
• Alexandre Vautravers: Sea/air routes, arms industry/trade, military strategy
• Takashi Yamazaki: Japan's foreign policy, China, Korea, US militarization of Okinawa

Geography, Politics.../Energy.../Africa...

Geography, Politics, Int. Relations

Cartography

• Jeremy Crampton: Geographic Information Systems, landscape, mapping technology
• Jeremy Crampton: Cartography, human perception, cognition, spatial geoweb
• Cartography and geocultural risks - Kate Edwards
• Cartography and geocultural risks: case studies - Kate Edwards

Conflict resolution

• Emel Akçali: Ethnic-territorial conflicts
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Democratisation and ethnic conflict settlement 1 - rights, elections, institutions
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Democratisation and ethnic conflict settlement 2 - groups, governance, security
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Democratisation and ethnic conflict settlement 3 - collective memory, army, trust
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Democratisation and ethnic conflict settlement 4 - perceptions, images, stability
• Igor Okunev: Federalism, autonomy and conflict resolution
• Michael Strauss: Territorial leasing and boundary conflicts

Nationalism

• Leonhardt van Efferink: Nation, nationalism and state 1 - Greek city-states, Max Weber, Peace of Westphalia
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Nation, nationalism and state 2 - Modernism, Ethno-Symbolism, Primordialism
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Nation, nationalism and state 3 - process, sentiment, language, movement, ideology?
• Jon Fox: Nationalism, social constructivism, modernists, ethno-symbolists
• Jon Fox: Nationalist elites, representations, reception theory, social media, sports
• Michael Skey: National identity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, globalisation
• Michael Skey: Nation, media representations, audiences, models, studies, influence

Sovereignty

• Patri Friedman: Permanent autonomous ocean communities
• Jamie Scudder: Territorial integrity 1 - modern states and the international system
• Jamie Scudder: Territorial integrity 2 - contingent sovereignty and Afghanistan
• Jamie Scudder: Territorial integrity 3 - humanitarian interventions and R2P
• Jamie Scudder: Territorial integrity 4 - statehood, rule of law and peoples
• William Worster: Sovereignty - two competing theories of state recognition

Territory

• Jonathan Armstrong: State terrorism - definition, geographic spaces and place destruction
• Stuart Elden: Territory, terror and sovereignty
• Juliet Fall: Boundaries - processes, practices and typologies
• Michel Foucher: Borders, security and identity
• Martin Geiger: International Migration - Management, Organization and Policy
• Martin Lewis: Metageographies, postmodernism and fallacy of unit comparability
• David Storey: Territories, landscapes, spaces, places, states, borderless world

Politics and International Relations

• Donald Abelson: Think tanks - definition, their influence and US foreign policy
• Gérard Dussouy: International Relations, realism and liberalism

Energy, Water and Resource Scarcity

Energy

• Timothy Boon von Ochssée: Mackinder and Spykman and the new world energy order
• Timothy Boon von Ochssée: Russia and the US in a New World Energy Order
• David Criekemans: Geopolitics of energy and the role of Russia in global power shifts
• David Criekemans: The geopolitics of renewable energy
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Arctic Geopolitics 1 - oil and gas exploration, Northwest Passage, climate change
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Arctic Geopolitics 2 - Russia's territorial claims, UNCLOS, the Lomonosov Ridge
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Russian gas 1 - export potential, EU demand and energy market deregulation
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Russian gas 2 - Russia's strategy, Gazprom and foreign investments
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Russian gas 3 - Nord Stream, South Stream and Nabucco pipelines
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Russian gas 4 - national interests undermine EU energy security (conclusion)
• Elmar Hellendoorn: External problems for Europe’s energy policy - A brief geopolitical analysis
• Andrea Teti: Middle East - resource scarcity, hydrocarbons and hydropolitics

Water resources

• Arjen Hoekstra: Water - its virtual form, national footprints and global economy
• Linda Johnston: Water Resources Management and Conflict Transformation
• Frédéric Lasserre: Water scarcity, conflicts and global warming
• Arjen Hoekstra: Water - its virtual form, national footprints and global economy
• Linda Johnston: Water Resources Management and Conflict Transformation
• Frédéric Lasserre: Water scarcity, conflicts and global warming

Africa and Europe

Africa

• Veit Bachmann: African-European relations
• Pádraig Carmody: Africa's economic development and globalisation
• Pádraig Carmody: Africa's natural resources, climate change and security
• Alex Chitty: Western Sahara - territorial dispute, self-determination and the UN
• Steven Spittaels: Congo (Democratic Republic) - a complex civil war

Europe - European Union

• Luiza Bialasiewicz: European Union - geographical imaginations
• Luiza Bialasiewicz: European Union: geopolitical visions
• Federico Bordonaro: European Union - global position and political integration
• James Rogers: European Union - geopolitical and chronopolitical othering
• James Rogers: European Union - foreign policy, communitarianism and civilisation
• James Rogers: European Union - grand strategy, normative power and military policy

Europe - Other

• Emel Akçali - Cyprus' geopolitical realities, representations and aspirations
• Federico Bordonaro: Europe, the global recession and dividing lines
• Federico Bordonaro: Russia's global position, Eastern Europe and energy policy
• Gyula Csurgai: Kosovo - self determination, secession and multi-ethnic regions
• Olivier Kempf: NATO - position of France, its cohesion and future enlargement
• Marietta König: Georgia - Abkhazia, South Ossetia and conflict resolution
• Marietta König: Georgia - Saakasvili, corruption and the opposition
• Martin Müller: The inevitable flaws in Russia’s great power project
• Jérémy Robine: France - national identity, urban riots and the 'War of Memories'

The Americas.../Study and Research...

The Americas, Asia, The Middle East

The Americas

No contributions on this region yet

Asia

• Judith Akkerman: New regionalism of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Melanie Hanif: India's foreign policy, energy security and the nuclear deal
• Melanie Hanif: India's regional interests, identities, instability and integration
• Julien Mercille: Afghanistan's politics, security and drugs
• Claude Rakisits: The Afghanistan–Pakistan vortex 1 – The rise of the Pakistani Taliban
• Claude Rakisits: The Afghanistan–Pakistan vortex 2 – The security situation in Afghanistan
• Claude Rakisits: The Afghanistan–Pakistan vortex 3 – The role of the international community
• Nathalène Reynolds: Jammu-Kashmir conflict - history, identities and resolution
• Nathalène Reynolds: Pakistan - Women's rights, civic society and Benazir Bhutto

The Middle East - Iran

• Mahdi Ahouie: Iran's foreign policy objectives, security concerns and global position
• Mahdi Ahouie: Iran's nuclear program, Bushehr and Non Proliferation Treaty
• Mahdi Ahouie: Iran's relationship with China, India and Russia
• Mahdi Ahouie: Iran's geographic complexity, defensive capacity and US military invasion
• Julien Mercille: US foreign policy towards Iran

The Middle East - Other

• Gideon Biger: Palestine's history and origin of the borders
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Lebanon's sovereignty 1 - a history of its territory, people and political system
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Lebanon's sovereignty 2 - the military, social and political rise of Hezbollah
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Lebanon's sovereignty 3 - Stephen Krasner's four concepts (conclusion)
• Sherif Elgebeily: Kurdistan - armed conflict or peaceful settlement?
• Sherif Elgebeily: Kurdistan - federalism, sovereignty and independence
• Andrea Teti: Middle East - political reforms, regional powers and external actors
• Andrea Teti: Middle East - security, Sunni-Shia divide and the Palestinian question

Study and Research Support

Books

• Leonhardt van Efferink: review of the "best" geopolitical books
• International Centre for Geopolitical Studies: recommended geopolitical books

Conferences

• Durham University: Critical Geopolitics (2008)
• International Boundary Research Unit: The State of Sovereignty (2009)

Courses - Master programs

• Amsterdam University: Territories, identities and conflict in a changing world order
• King's College London: Geopolitics, Territory and Security
• Newcastle University: International Politics (Critical Geopolitics)
• Nijmegen University: Conflicts, Teritories and Identities
• Royal Holloway (University of London): Geopolitics and Security

Courses - Other

• ICGS Geneva: Geoeconomics and Competitive Intelligence
• ICGS Geneva: Geopolitical Analysis of International Relations (2009)
• ICGS Geneva: Geopolitical Analysis of International Relations (2011)

Databases

• Centre for Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Research Database

External Links

• Country Data
• Country Risk
• Energy Security
• Geopolitics, Political Geography, Geostrategy and Geoeconomics
• International Security
• Natural Resource Disputes - The Arctic
• Natural Resource Disputes - Spratly Islands
• World Politics

Model United Nations Simulation Exercises

• David Criekemans: Georgia-Russia - Model UN Simulation Exercise (2008)
• David Criekemans: Kosovo - Model UN Simulation Exercise (2007)
• David Criekemans: North-Korea - Model UN Simulation Exercise (2009)

PhD projects

• Leonhardt van Efferink: Geopolitical scripts and the (de)legitimisation of ISAF

World Maps

• Leonhardt van Efferink: Agricultural commodities - cocoa, coffee, cotton, cacao, palm oil, soy, tea
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Country risk ratings - OECD classification
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Gas - largest reserves and major producers
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Mining Commodities - gold, silver, copper, iron ore, diamonds, bauxite
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Non-renewable energy resources - fossil fuels, uranium, coal
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Nuclear Energy - power plants, construction plans and the largest producers
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Oil - Largest reserves and major producers
• Leonhardt van Efferink: Renewable energy resources - Hydropower and Bioethanol