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Connectivity and geopolitics: beware the '"new wine in old bottles" approach
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Abstract With the Covid-19 pandemic, the fragility and vulnerability of the liberal international order became globally visible in an instant. Aspects of everyday life and especially our taken-for-granted views of connectedness have been disrupted in Asia, Europe, and beyond. The pandemic and, more important... view more
With the Covid-19 pandemic, the fragility and vulnerability of the liberal international order became globally visible in an instant. Aspects of everyday life and especially our taken-for-granted views of connectedness have been disrupted in Asia, Europe, and beyond. The pandemic and, more importantly, the political reactions to it, in many ways again underpin the geopolitical significance of connectivity in world politics. This link between geopolitics and connectivity becomes most obvious in a couple of successive initiatives in East Asia and the EU that illustrate the geopolitical turn of connectivity politics in the last decade. What different actors mean by connectivity matters more than ever; getting to the bottom of those meanings gives insights about what geopolitics contains today. (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
geopolitics; international politics; regulatory policy; Far East; China; EU; international relations; ASEAN; Japan
Classification
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
Free Keywords
Internationale Ordnung; Konnektivität (Internationale Beziehungen); Strategische Konzeption; Begriffsdefinition/Begriffsverständnis; Bisherige Entwicklung; Gegenwärtige Lage; COVID-19; Vorschlag/Initiative; Belt and Road Initiative (PR China); Regionalisierung internationaler Beziehungen
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
8 p.
Series
SWP Comment, 35/2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18449/2020C35
ISSN
1861-1761
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications