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Connectivity and geopolitics: Beware the "new wine in old bottles" approach

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  • Godehardt, Nadine
  • Postel-Vinay, Karoline

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With the Covid-19 pandemic, the fragility and vulnerability of the liberal international order became globally visible in an instant. Aspects of everyday life and especially our taken-for-granted views of connectedness have been disrupted in Asia, Europe, and beyond. The pandemic and, more importantly, the political reactions to it, in many ways again underpin the geopolitical significance of connectivity in world poli­tics. This link between geopolitics and connectivity becomes most obvious in a couple of successive initiatives in East Asia and the EU that illustrate the geopolitical turn of connectivity politics in the last decade. What different actors mean by con­nectivity matters more than ever; getting to the bottom of those meanings gives insights about what geopolitics contains today

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  • Godehardt, Nadine & Postel-Vinay, Karoline, 2020. "Connectivity and geopolitics: Beware the "new wine in old bottles" approach," SWP Comments 35/2020, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), German Institute for International and Security Affairs.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:swpcom:352020
    DOI: 10.18449/2020C35
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