Dimitris Kolias examines the multifaceted nature of power, stressing its role in either causing or impeding every socio-political change that takes place internationally. He focuses on the EU and its efforts to create its own geopolitical ‘space’, then examines the influential condition of Russia and China’s cosmopolitical approach to the international game and these actors’ obsession with the writings of Halford Mackinder, a marginal figure in the literature. He dwells on the importance of Eastern Europe for the broader geopolitical chessboard, before commenting on President Macron’s strategic thinking on Ukraine and arguing in favour of Europe’s growing engagement with Africa as a means of securing the geopolitical interests and future stability of the Union.
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