Borders and border regions play a crucial role – both as aggravators and casualties – in geopolitics, geoeconomics, and contemporary (in)securities.Geopoliticsinfluences borders by producing, transforming and undermining them, through material as well as discursive instruments. Geoeconomics captures how global economic borders are (re)shaped in response to rising security concerns. In this context, this research cluster focuses on how state, civil society, and market actors shape political and economic relations, how different actors use borders to pursue political objectives, and how global economic and political border landscapes are being re-drawn in the context of a changing global order. The cluster brings together research on territorial disputes and border conflicts, defense and security policymaking, the role of sub-state and non-state actors in international relations, economic security in Europe, and changing business-government relations in the context of geoeconomic competition.
Geopolitics, geoeconomics and contemporary (in)securities
