Geopolitics : Putting geopolitics in its place in cultural political economy

Jessop, Bob and Sum, Ngai-Ling (2018) Geopolitics : Putting geopolitics in its place in cultural political economy. Environment and Planning A, 50 (2). pp. 474-478. ISSN 0308-518X

Abstract

This comment explores the relation between geoeconomics and geopolitics from a critical realist, strategic-relational, and cultural political economy perspective. We disambiguate the 'geo-' family of concepts; introduce a more complex view of sociospatiality that enables a taxonomy of approaches to geopolitical analytical objects and inquiries; and illustrate this from China's Belt and Road Initiative seen as a complex geopolitical imaginary and linked modes of multi-spatial metagovernance.