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Resource wars, identity conflicts, disinformation, geostrategic rivalries, global power shifts, and an increasing number of non-state actors, make it difficult to analyse contemporary international relations. At the same time, contemporary power rivalries are increasingly affected by currency wars, economic diplomacy, competitive intelligence, economic warfare, indirect strategies, and state capitalism. The events in Ukraine in Spring 2014 reconfirm that Thomas Friedman's flattening of the world (based on the coincidence of the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the emergence of Netscape and the Web; workflow software; uploading; outsourcing; offshoring; supply-chaining; insourcing; in-forming; and "steroids" like Facebook and Instagram) goes hand in hand with the fact that, as postulated by Robert Kaplan, geography still matters in a global world. Globalization exists because of local processes, and local processes are ultimately shaped by globalization. Geography remains among the primary factors shaping a country's foreign policy. This book addresses the most fundamental geopolitical issues observable in a region where the 'great game' of geopolitics is particularly still alive-in

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Author

Martin Riegl, Jakub Landovský, Irina Valko

Publisher

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781443866804

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Economics, Political Science