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Centre for Geopolitics

Providing historically-grounded approaches to enduring geopolitical problems.
 

We focus on understanding questions of state and institutional formation, disintegration, interaction, and competition, globally and across key regions of the world.  We approach these questions from perspectives deeply grounded in history and place-specific expertise across four main types of ‘orders’.   

  • Middle Eastern and Eurasian Orders - Analysis of issues and questions rooted in the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, or the former USSR 
  • European Orders - Analysis of issues and questions rooted in Europe
  • Indo-Pacific Orders - Analysis of issues and questions rooted in South, Southeast, or East Asia, as well as Oceania
  • Global Orders - Analysis of issues and questions of truly universal scale and scope

 

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Middle Eastern and Eurasian Orders

Photo credit: M. Darchinger A Westphalian Peace for the Middle East How can this generation secure a lasting peace in the Middle East? This is one of the great challenges facing the world today. A Westphalia for the Middle East is an initiative of the Centre of Geopolitics & Grand Strategy (...


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European Orders

Europe has always been shaped by an order – or orders. Historically, most of these have been internal to the continent, though over the past one hundred years external powers have become more prominent. Today, we once again find ourselves in the force-field of competing orders: the European Union...


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Indo-Pacific Orders

The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) rapid ascension as a global power in the 21st Century has raised conceptual problems and strategic challenges for policymakers. PRC no longer fits within traditional classifications of “rising powers” or the third world, and its foreign policy is no longer one...


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Global Orders

The Protestant Political Thought project The Protestant Political Thought project (PPT) is a DAAD-funded collaboration between the Centre and the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford which explores the historical and contemporary intersections of Protestant theology and...