Geopolitics 3.0 Podcast

June 11, 2021

Geopolitics 3.0 Podcast: Ep 1 (June 10, 2021)

<p>These are times of greatest abundance and wealth, but also times of rising inequality and scarcity; these are times of the greatest technological growth, when humanity is entering a new space age; but these are also times in which our entire economic and political systems have been laid low by the simplest of all life forms.</p> <p>Depending on who you are and where you’re located, these could be the best of times or these could be the worst of times.</p> <p>One thing however is very clear - these are intensely geopolitical times. And the geopolitics of these times is itself as complex and multilayered as our age of paradox itself.</p> <p>In the third decade of the 21st century we have an international system that is as fragmented as ever in some domains, evident in geostrategic competition among major powers to increase their spheres of influence in multiple theatres where we have actual ongoing wars or threats of wars; but also one in which there is at the same time intense global collaboration, most evident in discussions around climate change, especially in terms of the search for geo-scientific solutions for moving to a post carbon economy.</p> <p>Yet, at times competition and collaboration, convergences and fragmentations, coexist - as in the geoeconomic domain where there are deep interlinkages and codependencies most evident in the networks of global supply chains; even as different nations are creating exclusive economic blocs.</p> <p>The simplistic expansionist logic of Geopolitics 1.0; or even the redundant ideological logic of Geopolitics 2.0 isn’t enough to understand let alone explain the world of today, in which legacies of the past coexist with the possibilities of tomorrow.</p> <p>In the Geopolitics 3.0 Podcast we will investigate the trajectories of global politics on a weekly basis, examining trends in international relations, mapping out these dynamics of Convergences and Divergences across various domains of geopolitics, including geoeconomics, geostrategy and geotechnology - in a world where the past and the future exist simultaneously in the present.</p> <p>In this episode I discuss, among other subjects:</p> <p>- Introduction to Geopolitics 3.0 : the Age of Paradox?</p> <p>- Covid Disruptions in Global Shipping and Supply Chains: the Yantian Terminal lockdown</p> <p>- President Biden's Europe Tour and Russia's plans to decouple from the US Dollar</p> <p>- Europe and Indonesia : approached to navigating the era of Geopolitics 3.0</p> <p>See my Youtube Channel for a video version of this Podcast and more presentations on Geopolitics : https://www.youtube.com/c/Geopoliticus/featured</p> <p>Newsletter: https://geopoliticus.substack.com/</p>