UPENDING GEOPOLITICS

This timely book examines how technological innovation, globalization, cyber warfare, and authoritarian impulses are transforming global power. With contributions from leading experts, the book analyses the evolution of super-states, the resurgence of industrial policy, and the economic strategies sustaining national influence, while addressing the pressures of climate change, pandemics, and demographic shifts.

Russia's and China's strategies and recent actions, and America's contested leadership highlights how trade flows, supply chains, and emerging technologies—from cyber to bio to space—are redefining security and Influence. Essential for economists, policymakers, business leaders, and scholars, this volume offers a critical guide to navigating the profound transformations shaping the 21st-century global order. This book challenges readers to rethink international strategies, governance, and economic policies amid change.

Contents:

• Foreword
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors
• Introduction
• Technology:
  • Complexity, Competition, and Turmoil in the Semiconductor Industry
  • A Road Map to Win the AI Race: A 2025–2030 US Strategy
  • Urban AI: Architecting Urban Energy and Climate — Benefits, Challenges, and Future Trajectories
• Education and Migration:
  • For Better or Worse: How Geopolitical Instability and Global Innovation Are Redefining US Universities
  • Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Social Physics of Market Renewal
• Geopolitics:
  • From the Post-World War II Rules-Based System of International Order to Great-Power Spheres of Influence: A Deadly Challenge to Our Traditional System of Values-Based Alliances and Trade Policies
  • The Bleeding Edge of the Future: Russia's Ukraine Sin and Communist China's Great War Against the World
  • Bharat and the Quest for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: India's Global Rise in a Divided World
• Cities:
  • The Science and Innovation Economy
  • A System for Technology-Driven Regional Innovation in South Korea
  • City-to-City Diplomacy
  • The Evolving Geopolitics of Distributed Work: A New Paradigm for a Changing World
• Business and Economics:
  • The Air Cargo Industry: The Role of Technology in Optimisation
  • Economic Challenges and Conflicts in the Emerging Geopolitical Environment
  • To Meet the Climate Crisis, Economic Theory Needs Radical Reform
• Endnotes
• Index

Readership: Academics, researchers working on International Economics and Political Economy. Business Executives. Policy makers at city and national levels.