Classic Geopolitics and Today’s Nexus of Conflict and Climate

Jan 13, 2025 | Gerard Toal
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From the outset, geopolitics was about exploiting the Earth. Great power competition was a struggle for space, as well as for strategic locations, resources, and territories. Classic geopolitics, though, continues to provide us with conceptual tools that can be enhanced to think critically about the territorial behavior of great powers both then and now.