More: Geopolitics
The Russia-OPEC-America Nexus: Reimagining the Great Oil Game
The geopolitical implication to the sudden fall in oil prices has had broad-reaching ramifications for a number of very powerful countries. Two of those...
Airlines as Geopolitical Agents of Power
Airlines are agents of geopolitical power. They are agents of geopolitical power, because they have the power to become the bridge between the core...
A Caspian Quasi-Khanate: DAESH, Wahhabism, and the Geopolitics of Distraction
In this article I will briefly outline how the history of this region, with its dominant religion of Islam, as well as its poverty...
A Legal & Cyber Minefield: An Overview of the Caspian Region
Control of the Caspian Sea has been highly sought after due to its abundance of natural resources. Nearly 3 billion gallons of crude oil...
The Power of Geopolitical Discourse
Geopolitics, as a discursive practice, should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, sometimes we are so busy with our daily activities and work that we tend...
Europe and China – Factors of Mutual Understanding
Geopolitics: enmity, rapprochement, concrete political or military decisions besides straightforward interests are often based on perceptions and influenced by the (lack of) understanding of...
Russian Nemesis? Cold War Pathologies and Analytical Afflictions
There have been numerous articles on the authoritarian strengthening of power in Russia and Putin’s backsliding from democracy throughout the 2000s. Russian positions and...
Russian Victim? Repositioning Strategies and Regional Dreams of Dominance
As a new wave of non-Western countries strive to elevate their profiles and expand their global influence, Russia is taking steps to help secure...
The Silk World Order
Get ready for ground shattering geopolitical changes. At the crossroads of Asia and Europe, it has been decided that the Russian city of Ufa...
The Caspian Kingmaker? Turkish Diplomatic Maneuvers and Motivations
Recent geopolitical activities have mostly painted Turkey as a diplomatic hero in mediating a role between two rival Caspian countries: Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. Past...