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Geopolitics news on diplomacy, sanctions, alliances, and conflict: how nations maneuver and what it means for the global order.

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Geopolitical ghosts & the United Nations

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Goodbaby’s 36-Year Stroller Journey Mirrors How China’s Light Industry Is Being Reshaped by Demographics and Geopolitics

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Nomura sees earnings resilience, but oil, geopolitics weigh on valuations

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Mining, geopolitics, and the 'impossible triangle'

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Stocks fall, bond yields surge and oil fluctuates as war keeps markets on edge

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Old Statecraft, New Geopolitics

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How China-Africa Relations Are Shaping the Geopolitics of AI

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Stocks fall, oil rises and bond yields surge as geopolitics keeps markets on edge

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MISTRA hosts third Africa, Geopolitics Forum in SA

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Morning Call Sheet: Rising yields, AI and geopolitics test markets

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Shipping’s answer to geopolitics: go around

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The big AI hoax: They are at It again – geopolitics and delusions (II)

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The geopolitics of logistics

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Geopolitics and grain don't mix, say these Montana farmers

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EXCLUSIVE: Shifting geopolitics driving EEAS turmoil, Kallas says

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Hostilities in Iran war resume, and other geopolitical stories to know this month

The World Economic Forum

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How the new North Korea-Russia car crossing bridges symbolism and geopolitics

NK News

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Pacific island nations seek to turn geopolitics into funding to offset climate change harm

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Inter-regional Geopolitics Lab: How to Navigate a Three-Theatre Conflict World - Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

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New Stanford Grants Tackle AI's Impact on Global Security and Geopolitics

Stanford HAI

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Iran-US war widens and other geopolitical stories to know this month

The World Economic Forum

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CNBC Daily Open: From geopolitics to monetary policy, fighting takes center stage

CNBC

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ECLAC High-level Commission to Present Recommendations to the Region's Countries on Navigating the Ruptures of the New Global Geopolitics

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An Expert’s Guide to Geopolitics from SIPA Alumna Tina Fordham

Columbia SIPA | School of International and Public Affairs

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Blockade diplomacy, energy as leverage and other geopolitical stories to know this month

The World Economic Forum

About Geopolitics

What the frame assumes

Geopolitical analysis treats states as actors pursuing interests within constraints of geography, resources, alliances and relative power. It is a useful lens and a partial one. It explains continuity well, since interests defined by location and economy change slowly and persist across changes of government. It handles domestic politics, ideology and individual decision-making less well, and those regularly produce outcomes the frame did not predict. Treating it as a complete account is how confident analysis becomes wrong; treating it as one input is how it stays useful.

The instruments states use

Between saying nothing and going to war lies most of what this beat covers. Diplomacy operates through recognition, negotiation, treaties and the deliberate withdrawal of all of them. Economic instruments include tariffs, export controls, investment screening and sanctions, which range from measures against named individuals to restrictions on whole sectors, and whose effectiveness is contested precisely because the intended effect is usually political rather than economic. Alliances commit members to respond to attacks on one another, and their value rests on whether that commitment is believed. Military force sits at the end of the range and is usually the failure of everything preceding it.

Why credibility does so much work

A great deal of state behavior is aimed at what other states expect rather than at any immediate gain. Deterrence works only if a threat is believed, so states take costly actions largely to make future statements credible. The same logic makes reputational concerns real rather than vain: a commitment abandoned in one place is read as information about commitments elsewhere. This is also why signaling, the deliberate use of visible action to communicate intent, is a category of event in itself, and why analysts pay attention to deployments and exercises that produce no fighting.

Domestic politics is not separate from this

The cleanest geopolitical analysis often fails because it treats states as unitary actors. Leaders answer to coalitions, militaries, party factions and electorates, and a policy that would serve the national interest as an analyst defines it may be impossible domestically. Foreign policy is also used for domestic purposes, with external disputes serving to consolidate support at home. Sanctions and tariffs create domestic winners and losers who then lobby, so measures outlast the conditions that produced them. Any explanation resting only on what a country ought rationally to want is missing where the decision is actually made.