In 2013 something unexpected was announced, and the whole world was not prepared to hear it. During his visit to Kazakhstan and Indonesia, President Xi Jinping announced a masterplan that will greatly advance China’s international prominence by facilitating its connection with t…
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This thesis seeks to find out how NATO military interventions in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan have negatively affected relations with Russia. In order to achieve the aim and hypothesis of the study, the critical geopolitical approach is chosen as a theoretical framework. The sc…
The area of the Middle East comprises a geographical land bridge between three continents. Hence it displays a kaleidoscopic network of historical, ethnic and cultural traditions whose spatial patterns shift over time. In addition, the region contains some of the more explosive …
This dissertation aims to revive the concept of geography in the study of international relations. I argue for the continued importance of geography in shaping the grand strategy of states. Specifically, I consider three geographical features: location of resources, layout of tr…
The nineteenth century rivalry between the Russian Empire and Great Britain over Central Asia, known as the "great game," was triggered by the quest for power and dominance. This study revisits Sir Halford Mackinder's thesis, which viewed the "heartland," consisting of Russia an…
The theme of nationalism has long provided the dominant framework for understanding the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and has become an increasingly popular motif in Russian and Soviet historiography. This dissertation sharply challenges that framework. It returns late Ottoman …
The Left in Cyprus is characterized by a peculiar combination of seemingly heterogeneous elements: the party which expresses the broader subculture of the “peoples movement” is ideologically communist, but its practice and that of the mass organizations of the Left seem closer t…
The playing field upon which actors, both state and non-state, develop strategies to secure existing supplies of oil and seek access to new ones is as systemically, politically and strategically complex is as it is geographically vast. In considering this activity, the terminolo…
This thesis starts from the premise that Geopolitics is performative, an iterative discourse “of visualising global space…reproduced in the governing principles of geographic thought and through the practices of statecraft” (Agnew 1998:11). During the last decade, two dominant d…
The thesis explores the geopolitical imaginations of Afghanistan within major political parties in Germany and the influential news magazine Der Spiegel. It seeks to identify assumptions regarding the territory, identity, sovereignty and security of Afghanistan and Germany in pa…
An increasing number of theorists are involving themselves in the historical evolution of geopolitical thought, although most are concerned only with the development of conventional western thinking' This thesis derives from the idea that it may be interesting and useful to inve…
News and information have always been critical factors in the conduct of international relations and the negotiation of political power in the international sphere. Yet, the increasingly ubiquitous nature of global telecommunications infrastructure and the ease and speed with wh…
This dissertation is the first systematic study of Armenia’s foreign policy during the post-independence period, between 1991 and 2004. It argues that a small state’s foreign policy is best understood when looking at the regional level. Armenia’s geographic proximity to Iran, Ru…
This research builds on theories of geopolitics as discourse in examining how popular media are implicated in the production of emerging state forms in the context of the War on Terrorism. The world is increasingly marked by movement, flows, and communication that transcend poli…
What happens when bodies are the territory through which geopolitical strategies play out? In the Leh district of India's contested Jammu and Kashmir State, religious identity has become politicized and Buddhist/Muslim conflict is being articulated at the site of the body. This …
This study offers a demand-side analysis of the individuals and institutions involved in a 'spatial fix' in Tangier, Morocco. Tangier's urban economy is distinguished by a high level of foreign investment from southern Spain in the residential and commercial real estate markets.…
This dissertation explores how various actors in Kazakhstan have constituted the state's sovereign authority since gaining independence in 1991, and it contributes to a broad range of literatures, from political and urban geography, to post-Soviet and Central Asian regional stud…
This dissertation investigates the historical and contemporary tensions around mobility and identity in Europe since WWII, with particular emphasis on their contemporary configurations. Drawing on recent theories of migrant and diasporic cinema, moving image art, and mobility st…
This thesis examines political conflict event data in Yemen from 2000–2010 to illustrate shifts in political contention and its effects on securitization in Yemen. It employs a geographic framework that interprets the influences of historical and geopolitical events on current p…