This paper sketches the very first research hypotheses and methodological framework for exploring the puzzle why at the peaceful end of the Cold War, more militarist versions of realism and decidedly geopolitical thought have known a comeback in different European countries while not in others....

The paper maps practically all European states between, on the one hand, the US and UK belligerents in the Iraq operation 2003 and, on the other hand, their main critics France, Germany, and Russia. We describe these patterns and tentatively try to explain them. Whereas we reject public opinion,...

Das Nord-Stream-2-Projekt soll in zusätzlichen Pipelines mehr Energie aus Russland direkt nach Deutschland transportieren, und zwar ohne den Transit durch Polen und durch die Ukraine. Den USA ist dieses Projekt ein Dorn im Auge, und die US-Regierung hat sogar über Sanktionen für europäische...

Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the fortunes of states, empires and civilizations. In his book Jimmy Teng claims that to understand the impacts of...