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The basic notions of Mackinder's doctrine involve considering the geography of the Earth as being divided into two sections: the World Island or Core, comprising Eurasia and Africa; and the Peripheral "islands", including the Americas, Australia, Japan, the British Isles, and Oceania. Not only was the Periphery noticeably smaller than the World ...
Companies have been spooked not just by geopolitical tensions, particularly Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that highlighted Europe’s dependency on Moscow for energy, but growing risks in ...
Geopolitics of Eastern Europe and West Asia in 2014, showing the frozen conflict zones of Transnistria, Crimea, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Donbas (numbered 1–5), as well as Northern Cyprus (lighter region within Cyprus).
This is a list of modern conflicts in the Middle East ensuing in the geographic and political region known as the Middle East.The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran.
Geopolitical tensions and an Iranian missile strike on Israel are dominating headlines, pushing crude oil prices higher as fears of supply disruptions escalate.
BEIJING — The United States will judge China “on its actions, not just its words,” U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns told NBC News, as the two rival powers try to improve ties even as ...
A Second Cold War, [1] [2] Cold War II, [3] [4] or the New Cold War [5] [6] [7] has been used to describe heightened geopolitical tensions in the 21st century between usually, on one side, the United States and, on the other, either China or Russia—the successor state of the Soviet Union, which led the Eastern Bloc during the original Cold War.
Most definitions of geostrategy below emphasize the merger of strategic considerations with geopolitical factors. While geopolitics is ostensibly neutral — examining the geographic and political features of different regions, especially the impact of geography on politics — geostrategy involves comprehensive planning, assigning means for achieving national goals or securing assets of ...