This approach, he says, enabled China, "despite its insistent Communist propaganda, to conduct itself as essentially a geopolitical 'free agent' of the cold war," making a tactical partnership with the United States in order to contain its fellow Communist country, the Soviet Union.
145 p. International election observers in post-Soviet Azerbaijan : geopolitical pawns or agents of change?
To be most efficient and successful, a joint China-US led effort should focus on socio-ecological systems changes facilitating and forcing pathogen evolution and emergence, rather than on specific infectious agents or geopolitical regions.
Almost 70percentt of those who do portray MENA characters are often on crime or geopolitical dramas, with 78percentt portraying terrorists, agents, soldiers or tyrants.
Whether it approves or not, the Royal Family acts as an agent and an adornment of UK overseas policy and its geopolitical aims.
This is a posture born just as much from the inherently suspicious worldview of intelligence agents-turned-policymakers – the siloviki – as it is from traditional Russian worries of geopolitical encirclement.
Mr. le Carré's seventh novel and the first in his Karla trilogy, "Tinker, Tailor" is set against a geopolitical (and movie) moment that is almost quaintly, reassuringly old-fashioned, a time when enemy agents had names like Boris, and a red flag with a hammer and sickle made the ideological and political stakes clear.
The travel agent said German holiday bookings had slowed down, "reflecting a less optimistic consumer climate due to geopolitical events, as well as a more subdued economic outlook as the EU considers adopting further sanctions against Russia".
He is also a geopolitical analyst in a financial company – just the kind of person Moscow Centre said it wanted its agents to cosy up to.
Geopolitical calculation?
