Search results for "Geopolitics."

Recensione di Paolo Giaccaria, Claudio Minca (Eds), Hitler’s Geographies. The Spatialities of the Third Reich

2017

Hitler’s Geographies, il volume curato da Paolo Giaccaria e Claudio Minca per The University of Chicago Press (2016), prende le mosse da quel vuoto teorico e bibliografico in cui è stata confinata la riflessione sulle geografie del Terzo Reich e a partire da qui tenta di riaprire uno spazio di dibattito che troppo a lungo è stato inibito o negato. Gettare le basi per una storia culturale degli spazi reali e immaginati che hanno attraverso il progetto nazista è l’intenzione dei due curatori, nella convinzione che un’attenta ricognizione della sua natura eminentemente geografica potrà non soltanto arricchire gli itinerari di ricerca esistenti, ma anche aprirne di inediti. La conquista del Leb…

Spatialité des frontières : géophilosophie d'après Michel Foucault et Gilles Deleuze

2012

The issue of borders is currently borne by political, economic and social emergency, which accounts for reverting to space-related questions, especially in the form of questioning limits, in social sciences, geopolitics and philosophy. The development of what is commonly known as globalization brings forth the idea that they might disappear in the mid- or short-term. It is therefore necessary to set up a concept and a typology of borders and their relation to space in order to decide on the possible reality of their disappearance.The first item goes thus : despite the apparently obvious homogeneity we get from immediate experience, space is a heterogeneous construction among whose elements …

WITTA Between Globalization and Localization: New Challenges in View of Geopolitical Developments, Impending Digitalization, and Artificial Intellige…

2020

Internationalization of higher education also concerns the training of translators, interpreters, and other language service providers. Their services will continue to be of paramount importance for global development, where they become increasingly important as a bridge for economic and cultural exchanges. The Belt and Road Initiative of China will strengthen the demand for language services in an increasingly transnational environment. Since new forms of cooperation are necessary and desirable, WITTA as a new association should strive at becoming an autonomous transnational Think Tank that generates policy-oriented research, analysis, and advice on domestic and international issues in the…

South China Sea or West Philippine Sea?

2017

The South China Sea (“West Philippine Sea”) has been for several years a space of potential conflict between several countries due to overlapping of their EEZs and China’s claim of a large part of this oceanic space, well beyond its UN-endorsed EEZ. The Spratly islets and Scarborough shoal are mere coral reefs, uninhabited for the most part, but they lie in the middle of rich fishing grounds and atop large reserves of petroleum and natural gas. Furthermore, the area is one of the world’s busiest sea lanes for commercial navigation. This chapter presents the general rules of UNCLOS (international laws pertaining to oceanic space), and then examines the competing claims, focusing on the China…

Re-thinking Nicholas J. Spykman : from historical sociology to balance of power

2020

This article examines Nicholas J. Spykman’s scholarship beyond geopolitics and International Relations (IR). Because his works have mainly been studied through these prisms, I argue that we have overlooked the most important underlying current of his work: historical sociology. As a result, the prevailing view of him is overtly narrow. When Spykman’s scholarly output is examined from the 1920s to 1940s, an entirely different view of Spykman emerges. Essentially, his fundamental understanding of world affairs derived from the German sociologist Georg Simmel’s theories. In the 1920s and 1930s, Spykman transmuted these underpinnings into IR that later in the 1940s guided his two major works: A…

Los mapas geopolíticos de la Unesco: entre la distinción y la diferencia están las asimetrías. El éxito (exótico) del patrimonio inmaterial

2013

Immaterial Heritage is a political category that is both confusing and contradictory. The democratization and universalization of Cultural Heritage have made the latter more profuse and have led to its increased importance. Even so, and despite its current levels of protagonism, its construction responds not only to outmoded parameters but also to a global exercise in apparent symmetry. In other words, things do not appear to have changed significantly from Colonialism to the new Imperialism. So it is safe to say that we are now privy to a “re-christening” of what was formerly referred to as “folklore”. And in this change in the conception of heritage we have gone from putting the accent on…

U.S. Grand Strategy Towards Russia 2001-2017

2019

Objectives<i>U.S. foreign policy towards Russia is of the utmost importance for the national security of the countries on the NATO eastern flank. Grand strategies are among the analytical concepts for classification and analysis of U.S. actions in the international arena. This paper uses grand strategy classification framework to classify and analyse U.S. strategy towards Russia from 2001 to 2017.</i>Methods<i>36 speeches about Russia by U.S. Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden from 2001 to 2017 were used in content analysis. U.S. grand strategy classification framework was used as the tool for coding and classifying different foreign polic…

Гeoпoлiтичнi дeтeрмiнaнти єврoiнтeгрaцiйнoї пoлiтики Рecпyблiки Мoлдoвa

2015

Sveriges irredenta : försvenskningen av de finskspråkiga i Norrbotten 1888-1921 ur identitetsbyggandets synvinkel

2009

In this study the task is to point out the key features in the making of a Swedish nation from the perspective of a minority language, i.e. the Finnish speaking minority in the region of Norrbotten, Sweden. Swedish historians usually list the fear of Russia (Russia, the arch-enemy -topos) and the Laestadian movement as main reasons for the policy of cultural assimilation of the Finnish-speaking minority. In this study the main task is to use the post modern discourse analysis (especially Michael Shapiro) in reading texts between the years 1888 and 1921. For this purpose I have gone through material of the period, i.e. debates in the Swedish Parliament, the newspaper Haparandabladet, pamflet…