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The relevance of the topic is due to the growing role of the Eastern Mediterranean as a strategic region where the interests of global powers and regional actors intersect, which forms a complex system of interaction and...

ABSTRACT Reflecting on the origins and methodology of her book, The Rise and Fall of American Art, 19840s-1980s: A Geopolitics of the Western Art Worlds (2015), the author replaces her work in the context of a growing aw...

Abstract Timor-Leste is one of the youngest States of the twenty-first century. It was a Portuguese colony, occupied by Indonesia, the stage of United Nations interventions, and since its restoration of independence, it ...

The sabotage related to the Nord Stream pipelines does not only signify the Russo ‑Ukrainian War’s escalated realities and potential future risks, also tied to the energy security of supply, but in addition to tradit...

The role of Ukraine on the global geopolitical stage from 1991 to 2025 is analyzed. Based on geopolitical conclusions drawn from the works of scholars such as H. Mackinder and Zb. Brzezinski, the geostrategic importance ...

Book review on Nicolas Maslowski – Kinga Torbicka (eds.). Contested Legacies of 1989. Geopolitics, Memories and Societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022, 228 pp.

O pensamento geopolítico do geógrafo inglês Halford Mackind-er é revisitado com três objetivos: a) analisar criticamente os conceitos que formam o arcabouço da teoria do poder terrestre; b) enfocar à luz dessa teo...

Recent political protests in Bulgaria, led in part by Gen Z students, workers, and unemployed young people, have sharpened popular demand for a rethinking of both public services and national identity. In the face of con...

The energy transition is central to addressing the climate crisis, yet it also fosters new geopolitical and territorial tensions. As a major supplier of critical minerals for renewable technologies, Latin America occupie...

The article stresses the strong similarity between integral perspectives illustrated by interwar geopolitics and the sociological system conceived by Dimitrie Gusti. And it argues that Gusti’s sociological system was i...

BRICS, an abbreviation for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, a group of five influential and emerging economies successfully completed its fifth annual summit in Durban during March 26-27, 2013. A significan...

El sistema mundial se encuentra en plena transición histórico-espacial. La crisis de hegemonía se refleja en un conjunto de conflictos en donde los poderes dominantes no logran imponerse, como también en el cambio en...

Las relaciones políticas entre Corea del Sur y Japón están fuertemente determinadas por el pasado agresor de Japón en la península. Desde el siglo XV hasta fines del siglo XIX, estos países mantuvieron relaciones ...

Durante el siglo XXI en Argentina y Brasil, como en otras geopolíticas principalmente occidentales, la educación sexual se fue formalizando como política pública y escena institucional central en las disputas por la ...

Los estudios sociales sobre el deporte –y el fútbol en particular– han tenido un desarrollo tardío en el campo académico argentino, con procesos de institucionalización recién consolidados hacia fines de la déc...

The objective of this study is to examine the profitability and resilience of Ukrainian firms that adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in a context of war-induced uncertainty. The present study focus...

Abstract The control over what Dillon and Lobo-Guerrero (2008) conceptualise as ‘pluripotent’ life has become an essential factor of capitalist agriculture; this occurs through the regulation of strategic genetic res...

Abstract Middle Eastern geopolitics are dynamic and complex. Ideological and religious matters interplay with domestic and international structures, generating several types of relations. This article aims to analyse the...

In this paper, we borrow the dramaturgical analysis from sociologists and use it to analyze how contemporary Russian elites communicate with the public. It is my goal to analyze the performance of the Russian political e...

Abstract How do Brazil’s defence documents incorporate natural resources and critical infrastructure as political and strategic components of the national energy security framework? After presenting the contemporary i...

The concept of Occidentalism developed by Dmytro Dontsov serves as a significant analytical tool for understanding the Russia-Ukraine war (2014–2025), viewed as a confrontation between two fundamentally different civ...

Based on a geographical-administrative definition of the region, the theoretical assumptions of contemporary French structuralist geopolitics, cross-sectional data for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005 and 2010 from the Updated Arc...

Relations between the US and China have deteriorated to their lowest point since their rapprochement in the 1970s. To make sense of contemporary geopolitics, our objective in this article is two-fold. First, we historica...