Geopolitics
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Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| Belt and Road Initiative | |
| Commonwealth of Independent States | |
| Eurasian Economic Union | |
| Global Gateway | The EU’s much-hyped Global Gateway is just 'old wine in new bottles', critics say<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> |
| Greece/Debt crisis | The crisis over Greek sovereign debt which came to a head with the election of the Syriza Party to office in January 2015 and its refusal to accept EU Commission and ECB demands for further dramatic austerity measure on an already desperately impoverished population. |
| India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor | Western attempt to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative |
| Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Curzon | “Turkestan, Afghanistan, Transcaspia, Persia. To many, these words breathe only a sense of utter remoteness, or a memory of strange vicissitudes or moribund romance. To me, I confess, they are pieces on a chessboard, upon which is being played out a game for the domination of the world” | George Curzon | 1898 |
| Lucy Morgan Edwards | “[When asked by Tony Gosling why she thought the US & the UK were so interested in invading Afghanistan, other than the drugs ]: Clearly, it's nothing to do with democracy or women's rights. You'd have to need a lobotomy if you still believed that - despite all the relentless propaganda about free and fair elections and everything. That's complete and utter nonsense. It's just one massive great military base now. I went back there in 2013. I found it really shocking, the military, the militarised presence in Kabul, the watchtowers, the Hesco barriers... It's nothing to do with helping Afghanistan develop, but I think it's all about being a military base for the coming wars on Iran, China, potentially Russia. It's all about where it's located. As we know Lord Curzon said obver a hundred years ago it was the center of the geopolitical chessboard of Asia.” | Lucy Morgan Edwards | March 2018 |
| Samuel Huntington | “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” | Samuel Huntington |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:The Geo-Politics of the Strait of Hormuz | webpage | 8 January 2012 | Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | |
| File:The Geographical Pivot of History.pdf | paper | 1 April 1904 | Halford Mackinder | Halford Mackinder's seminal paper on the determining role of global geography on global politics. The concepts and categories it defines have remained a staple of geo-politics for over 100 years and were the root motivations of the allied powers in both 20th century world wars. |
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