ABSTRACT
The image of Germans rushing across the boundary at the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was in many ways the symbolic end to the binary geopolitics of the Cold War. While for many this was a wonderful moment promising the end of violent global confrontation and the start of a more peaceful world, many geopolitical commentators remained wary. As noted in the General Introduction, conventional geopolitics is based on the realist theory of international politics which locates threats to the peaceful existence of states in the international realm. Thus, geopoliticians were quick to argue that new dangers would emerge in the aftermath of the Cold War. In Part Three, we examine some of the main geopolitical projections that have emerged to explain global international relations since the end of the twentieth century.
