Neoclassical geopolitics has been emerging as a stream – or a renovated body – of scientific tools for the study of International Relations. The purpose of this panel is to focus on geographical and identity realities as the substance of the geopolitical approach and, therefore, increase the explanatory power of international phenomena by the neoclassical geopolitics’ stream. In this way, the core lines of this panel are designed by theories, variables, factors, and concepts, with the highest value for geopolitical analysis.
The panel can be divided in two parts.
Part I constituted of papers (1) and (4) are devoted to more conceptual approaches, theorizing the factors of technology and artificial intelligence within geopolitical studies, opening and closing the panel. Papers (2) and (3), niched in the middle of the preceding two papers, not only provide theorization as well, but they moreover apply the concepts in cases studies in East Asia and West Africa providing hints on operationalization of concepts.