Are Spheres of Influence 'Social'? Rethinking Geopolitics for the 21st Century

• In Event: Allies, Balancing, and Spheres of Influence in IR

Brief Overview

This paper rethinks the dichotomy between 'geopolitics' and global governance, and argues that geopolitical phenomena can be constitutive, shared elements of international society--in a word, social.

Author

• Christopher David LaRoche, Central European University