Co-Chair
Institute for International Studies
Center for Spatial Analysis in IR
76 Vernadskogo Pr.
Moscow 119454
RUSSIA
Co-Chair
Sharyl Cross, St. Edwards University, USA
sharylcross@stedwards.edu
Officers
Tolga Demiryol, Altinbas University (Turkey), tolga.demiryol@altinbas.edu.tr
Ruben Elamiryan, Russian-Armenian University (Armenia), rubene@rau.am
Nuno Morgado, Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary), nuno.morgado@uni-corvinus.hu
Ziv Rubinovitz, Sonoma State University (USA), ziv.rubinovitz@gmail.com
Piotr Wilczyński, Uniwersytet Pedagogiczny w Krakowie (Poland), piotr.wilczynski@up.krakow.pl
Background
Recognized as study group in 1995; granted research committee status in 1999.
Objectives
Promotes the study of geopolitics, a concept that today includes those variables important for a country’s foreign policy options, and which cannot be changed by governmental policy in a short period of time. These variables include, among others, a country’s positioning in the international and regional systems, its relationship to the processes of globalisation, and its relative power resources along different dimensions (economic, political, military, cultural etc.).
The research programme includes case studies concerning the reciprocal relationship between geopolitical influences and foreign policy behaviour, and contributions to theorising on the broader relationship between geopolitics and political behaviour.
