The return of geopolitics in Europe?

'The return of geopolitics in Europe? Social mechanisms and foreign policy identity crises', originally published with Cambridge University Press was translated by Bárbara Motta and published at the University Press of the Universidade Estadual Paulista (Editora Unesp) in São Paulo.

The translation of the book was launched at PUC-Rio de Janeiro on 13 November 2020. Link to the webinar.
And on 8 December 2020 at UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista) in São Paulo. Link to the webinar.

The end of the Cold War demonstrated the historical possibility of peaceful change and seemingly showed the superiority of non-realist approaches in International Relations. Yet in the post-Cold War period many European countries have experienced a resurgence of a distinctively realist tradition: geopolitics. Geopolitics is an approach which emphasises the relationship between politics and power, on the one hand, and territory, location and environment, on the other. This comparative study shows how the revival of geopolitics came not despite of, but because of, the end of the Cold War. Disoriented in their self-understandings and conception of external roles by the events of 1989, many European foreign policy actors used the determinism of geopolitical thought to find their place in world politics quickly. The book develops a constructivist methodology to study causal mechanisms, and its comparative approach allows for a broad assessment of some of the fundamental dynamics of European security.

Link to the original book 'The return of geopolitics in Europe?'

Link to a symposium on the book

Link to DIIS Working Paper 2020: 11 From the geography of politics to the politics of geography