Upending Geopolitics: Strategic Shifts in Technologies, Cities, and Global Influence

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.