Geopolitical Passports

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Scholars A-D

• Marco Antonsich's Geopolitical Passport
• Mark Bassin's Geopolitical Passport
• Saul Cohen's Geopolitical Passport
• Gyula Csurgai's Geopolitical Passport
• Simon Dalby's Geopolitical Passport
• Elena dell'Agnese's Geopolitical Passport
• Gertjan Dijkink's Geopolitical Passport
• Klaus Dodds' Geopolitical Passport
• Emmanuel Dupuy's Geopolitical Passport
• Gérard Dussouy's Geopolitical Passport

Scholars E-L

• Fabrizio Eva's Geopolitical Passport
• Colin Flint's Geopolitical Passport
• Henk van Houtum's Geopolitical Passport
• Jennifer Hyndman's Geopolitical Passport
• Gerry Kearns' Geopolitical Passport
• Frédéric Lasserre's Geopolitical Passport

Scholars M-Z

• Virginie Mamadouh's Geopolitical Passport
• Nick Megoran's Geopolitical Passport
• Sami Moisio's Geopolitical Passport
• Joe Painter's Geopolitical Passport
• Claude Rakisits' Geopolitical Passport
• Nathalène Reynolds' Geopolitical Passport
• Stéphane Rosière's Geopolitical Passport
• David Slater's Geopolitical Passport
• Alexandre Vautravers' Geopolitical Passport

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Introduction

The "Geopolitical Passport" series aims to humanise geopolitics by offering geopolitical specialists an opportunity to give their views on this discipline.

The interviews address issues such as the rational behind their decision to conduct geopolitical research, their favourite books and their expectations regarding the geopolitical future.

Elena dell'Agnese

May 2010

Elena dell'Agnese is Professor in Geography at the University of Milano-Bicocca. Her research interests include American, critical and popular geopolitics, as well as the history of critical geography.

Elena dell'Agnese's Geopolitical Passport

"Someone, probably the French author Foucher, once defined geopolitics as 'the analysis of power relations between groups identifying themselves on a territorial basis.' That’s my favourite definition, because it speaks about peoples and territories, but not about states."

Colin Flint

May 2010

Colin Flint is Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are war, militarization, and just war theory.

Colin Flint's Geopolitical Passport

"The way current academic geography is ignored by popular scholars such as Thomas Friedman and Robert Kaplan is depressing and appalling. At the same time many academic disciplines (sociology, literature, political science, etc.) have discovered space and geography."

Jennifer Hyndman

May 2010

Jennifer Hyndman is Professor in Social Science/Geography at York University in Toronto (Canada). Her research combines political, economic, cultural and feminist geography, focusing on people's mobility, displacement and security.

Jennifer Hyndman's Geopolitical Passport

"I don’t see geopolitics as a science but rather a social science fraught with and all about power relations, their spatiality, and the constellations of violence and conflict they produce."

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Saul Cohen's Geopolitical Passport

November 2009

Professor Saul Cohen is University Professor Emeritus at Hunter College and the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD at Harvard University and is specialised in geopolitical theory and political geography. He has written extensively about political and economic geography, Israel and Middle East geography:

Saul Cohen's Geopolitical Passport

"The 21st will be the Global Century, not the American or Chinese. The complexity of the system requires the leadership of all the major and regional powers to keep the world in balance. As first among equals of the Great States, the U.S., in partnership with the E.U. will be challenged to apply its military and economic power to international affairs with wisdom and consistency, while mindful of the limitations, as well as the responsibilities inherent in the exercise of power."

Geopolitical Passport Mark Bassin

February 2010

Mark Bassin is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include geographies of nationhood and national identity and geopolitics and the role of space and territory in contemporary political ideologies.

Mark Bassin's Geopolitical Passport

"The end of the Cold War saw a great efflorescence of interest in geopolitics, and I believe this will grow greater in coming decades. This interest is directly linked to the break-up of the static bi-polar arrangement of global politics and the re-emergence of Great Powers and the multi-lateral disputes between them. This new global scene will insure the relevance of a geopolitical perspective well into the future."

Geopolitical Passport of Joe Painter

January 2010

Professor Joe Painter (Durham University) obtained a BA at University of Cambridge and a PhD at The Open University. His research interests include geographies of the state and citizenship and urban politics and governance. In this interview, professor Painter discusses among other topics North-South and East-West relations, socio-technical networks and political anthropology.

Joe Painter's Geopolitical Passport

"We also have to attend to the differences between geopolitics as an academic endeavour (the study of geopolitics) and geopolitics as a political activity (the practice of geopolitics) as well as to the continuous interaction between the two. Geopolitics is concerned with the difference space makes to politics."