Track Code
RC41
Track Chairs
Dr. Nuno Morgado
Dr. Sharyl N. Cross
Promotes the study of geopolitics, a concept that today includes those variables important for a country鈥檚 foreign policy options, and which cannot be changed by governmental policy in a short period of time. These variables include, among others, a country鈥檚 positioning in the international and regional systems, its relationship to the processes of globalisation, and its relative power resources along different dimensions (economic, political, military, cultural etc.).
The research programme includes case studies concerning the reciprocal relationship between geopolitical influences and foreign policy behaviour, and contributions to theorising on the broader relationship between geopolitics and political behaviour.
Open Panels
- AI in State Decision-Making: Reimagining State Capacity and Statecraft
Chair: Mr. Harjeet Singh - Approaches for Assessing Escalating Geopolitical/Geoeconomic Risks in a Transitional Global Order
Chair: Dr. Sharyl N. Cross - Beyond Hormuz: Strategic Waterways, Blockade Scenarios, and the Future of Global Geopolitics
Chair: Dr. Amar Kumar - Conceptualizing Geopolitical Risk: Theory, Assessment, and Pedagogy
Chair: Dr. Juan Mesa - Critical Mineral Diplomacy and the Reconfiguration of International Order
- Energy Transition, Resource Geopolitics and Great Power Relations in the Middle East
Chair: Dr. Xuming Qian - Geopolitical Competition in the Pacific: Great Power Rivalry and the Agency of Pacific Island States
Chair: Dr. Sarina Theys - Global Economic Power Shifts and the Future of International Economic Governance
Chair: Ms. Remya R - Governance in Transition: An Era of new world order of Geopolitics an Power
Chair: Dr. Preeti Sharma - India-China Relations and the Changing Global Order
- Rethinking Alignment: Identity, Neutrality, and Foreign Policy in a Multipolar World
- Rethinking Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific: Competing Visions and Strategic Competition
Chair: Prof. Alexandre Coelho - Strategic Culture & Identity in Geopolitics
Chair: Dr. Marta Zorko - The US-China Geopolitical Competition in Africa: Contexts, Dimensions, and Emerging Trajectories
Chair: Prof. Christopher Isike - Ukraine鈥檚 Resistance and Resilience: Transforming Regional Geopolitics and the Future of the Global Order
- Uncertain Democracies: Rethinking Governance in a Changing Global System
Chair: Dr. Ryan Hartley
