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102948
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2011.
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Despite the crucial role of schools and universities in shaping the worldviews of their students, education has been a marginal topic in international relations. In a plea for more engagement with the power and effects of education, this paper analyzes the interplay of discipline and knowledge in the formation of geopolitical subjects. To this end, it employs material from ethnographic research at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the premier university for educating future Russian elites in the field of international relations. The paper draws on Foucault to chart the ensemble of disciplinary practices producing "docile bodies" and objective knowledge and traces how these practices are bound up with the geopolitical discourse of Russia as a great power: while they fashion the great power discourse with objectivity, disruptions in the discourse also disrupt disciplinary practices.
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084635
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2008.
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When critical geopolitics entered German political geography, its empirical verve helped crank up a discipline which had diminished into an academic backwater. Soon, however, conceptual doubts began to supersede the initial enthusiasm with which critical geopolitics had been welcomed into political geography. Critical voices in German geography highlight the conceptual heterogeneity of critical geopolitics which engenders clashes between different, partly incommensurable epistemologies. Our paper traces the empirical and conceptual trajectory of critical geopolitics and the multifarious critique of it in German geography, before venturing to take a fresh look at poststructuralist, postcolonialist and systems theoretical approaches which, in the German context, are discussed as conceptual avenues that might usefully inform the further development of critical geopolitics.
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123725
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2013.
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In February 2012 the European Commission released a video that was intended to promote the idea of European union among younger people. It shows a white woman, dressed in a golden jumpsuit, that is threatened by three men preparing to fight her. First a man, ostensibly from East Asia, jumps down in front of her performing Kung Fu. Then a practitioner of Kalaripayattu, a southern Indian martial art, levitates towards her brandishing a sabre and finally a black man cartwheels in, menacing the woman with Capoeira moves. The woman stays calm, splits into twelve versions of herself to surround the assailants, who then vanish as the twelve women turn into the twelve stars of the EU flag, accompanied by the message "The more we are, the stronger we are". The video, an attempt at viral communication, was retracted a few days after it was released - for obvious reasons. Propagating racialised threats to Europe, it is a thinly veiled attempt at promoting European unity through stoking geopolitical fears of China, India and Brazil, making individuals stand in for whole states. Its message is in tune with what Alexander Murphy diagnoses in his paper: a view of the EU as a supra-state, which is in competition with other states, and the drawing of clear boundaries of who belongs there and who does not.
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