Surrounded, in fact, by Mozambican territorial waters, these two islands, with a population of about 15,000 between them, are that rarest of geopolitical entities, lacustrine exclaves — land belonging to a larger territory from which it is cut off by the territorial lake water of another nation.
Global Population ultimately shows how a geopolitical problem about sovereignty over land morphed into a biopolitical solution, entailing sovereignty over one's person.
Using media that range from video and photography to digital animation, performance, and assemblage, these artists parse the economic, geopolitical, and phantasmatic conditions of land and space.
The Sultanate of Oman, a country whose geopolitical significance has always belied its palm tree-lined image as a land more suited to fairytales, is once again at the centre of international intrigue.
We investigated factors affecting forest recovery rates over a 25-year time period in a large (6 million ha) landscape where geopolitical boundaries have resulted in important land management legacies (managed forests of Minnesota, USA; managed forests of Ontario, Canada; and a large unmanaged wilderness).
However, their underlying strategic dissonance and rivalry over issues extending from land and water to geopolitical influence usually attracts less notice.
She emphasized the big picture, noting that the challenges of rural women are operating within much larger geopolitical conflicts including competition for mining resources, land, water, and oil.
In Ukraine the power of a similar offer precipitated a civil war and geopolitical contest with Russia; in the Holy Land, though, the promise of "special privileged partnerships" was barely noticed.
If we are serious about saving coral reefs and the many benefits they provide to wildlife and people, we must resist the temptation to engineer small platforms of land aimed solely at flexing geopolitical muscle.
The country is land-locked and mountainous, with a geopolitical neighborhood best described as difficult.
