Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction | Klaus Dodds | Talks at Google

Klaus Dodds gives us a high-level overview of the field of Geopolitics, using 10 key images, and a case study on the Arctic to illustrate his points. From historical maps to James Bond films to the rhetoric of political leaders, he considers why, for a full understanding of contemporary global politics, it is essential to be geopolitical.

Klaus Dodds is Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he is also Director of the Politics & Environment Research Group. He is the author of Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction.

[NSachs-txxb]

Nothing better than a Brit from Londonistan with colonial guilt. You could have summarized the whole thing with:'States have interests that sometimes go against the interests of other states.'

[roballen]

every one from the native tribes to the most powerful leaders need to take a lesson on Geopolitics from Klaus Dodds, no necessary answers But a lot of food to think about and to act upon

[DeadrustyMeat]

What a fine lecture!. It "moved the floor under my feeth". We have to re-think about our international relations in the face of the rapid environmental change!

[TheVicenteSilva]

This "expert" on the artic called it a "remote place devoid of natural resources" which couldn't be more wrong. The artic is not some symbolic place where you plant a flag for a dick measuring competition, it's full of oil and natural gas and is also a crucial sea route for military and economic purposes (connecting China and Northern Europe for example) with the melting of ice caps

[NSachs-txxb]

38:20 'National Sovereignty is a Myth', it's getting better and better.

[alquinn]

i've been to the "pivot area" -- it's full of old russian women arguing with each other at a bazaar

[pingukutepro]

The Master of Geopolitic is henry Kissinger himself

[mady]

This is not geopolitics, geopolitics is generally ethno ambiguous, this man's geopolitics is ethnocentric due to his own biases of intersectionality. Also, Geopolitics doesn't care about the sex of James bond at all.

[LoscoeLad]

58:13 when has anything ended well that the US WERE involved in, since ww2 at least?
Didn't seem to say much about anything.. can't believe he didn't mention the shipping channels opening up in the Arctic.. and i thought they had already found oil up there?

[polarexperts]

Mr Klause, concerning last question and answer about Moldova, I would say mr Kissenger will disagree with you about yoir point of better joining NATO for East European country.
Last Davos he told about Ukraine advised to be a buffer zone rather then a frontier of NATO and EU.
Hope, now you can see why.

[peterdollins]

A group from an Indian Tribe came down to Montreal in 71 on finding out the Canadian Government innded to put a dam in that must flood their living & hunting grounds.. We managed to contact them to sympathetic lawyers who tried to help represent them. This tribe were certanly not oppresed or held down by hundreds of years of terror. They were a very happy tribe. But were unaware of how our societies work. They needed to leave four or five of their tribe to work with these lawyers & sympathetic journalists we knew or even politicians. But they simply buggered off laughing in great good humour. I fear and I'm almost sure their living & hunting grounds are now flooded over.

[Meekseek]

Interesting, but not surprised that this video doesn't allow the top comments to show.

[Rocashu]

what kind of job can you have with a geopolitics master's degree

[yananneteoh]

I'm so relieved to get this presentation of Geopolitics from Klaus Dodds. We need many more talks from Klaus.
I watched a documentary about Crimea... the people of Crimea prefer to be Russians.

[orionstark]

Zeihan has a thing or two to say about Mackinder's map.
The USA won the lottery on geopolitical positioning with the Mississippi River Valley.

[wbiro]

The Philosophy for Broader Survival is the best path to 'pan-humanism'.

[djibrilyadd]

Dear Director I'm an ICU and anaesthetist International Doctor also Humanitarian finishing my PhD in Diplomacy and strategy at CEDS Dakar . Thanks a lot for your topic covered . Take care of your heart I feel you really passionate and leaving with compassion in this field of International relations. Peace, collaboration, solidarity, tolerance, justice, weither than predation or competition will save the world. Economic wars are not up-to-date. Needs are increasing so growth too should increase. The resources are only waiting to be share equally and fairly.

[franciscorosa]

Although the GB does not have an Arctic coast, it may be mandated by the native arctic peoples, so it could also win a slice of the pie, like Russia!!

[bernardopais]

When you give a conference, thinking that you are an expert about Geopolitics and let everyone else discover that you´re an expert about nothing!

[DrBaarish]

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