Technology, Energy and Warfare and Evolving Geopolitics

This book puts forward a new conceptual framework for emerging geopolitics through the lens of technology, energy, and warfare. Drawing on rich case studies from across the globe, it illuminates how power dynamics are being fundamentally reshaped across nations, governments, international organizations, and individuals.

It highlights three interrelated aspects of the evolving geopolitics: the close connections between technology and geopolitics, and their mutual influence; the interaction between energy and geopolitics, and the problem of ensuring global security; and warfare affecting global politics. The volume discusses cutting-edge trends and developments in artificial intelligence, the expanding domain of cyberwarfare as well as hybrid warfare, ongoing energy transitions, emerging renewable energy hubs, and structural shifts in global energy markets. Through rigorous analysis, the authors track the economic, social, and political transformations triggered by these interconnected developments across the international landscape.

This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of international relations, security and intelligence studies, information technology, and artificial intelligence. It will also be of special interest to professionals such as policymakers, security and intelligence practitioners, and professionals working with embassies.

Sandeep Tripathi is the Founding Director of the Forum for Global Studies, New Delhi. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of History and International Relations, Southern Federal University, Russia. He received his PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has delivered keynote addresses at renowned global institutions, including the University of São Paulo, Brazil, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, Yerevan State University, Armenia, the University of Warsaw, Poland, IDSC, Philippines. He is a regular foreign affairs commentator featured in leading media outlets.

Kirill Sablin is a researcher specializing in political and economic aspects of traditional energy development and discrete structural alternatives of the world economy institutional organization. He received his PhD in Economics from Kemerovo State University , Kemerovo. Currently, he is a Visiting Researcher at the Federal Research Centre of Coal and Coal Chemistry, Kemerovo, Russia. His scientific interests include economic development of countries with emerging markets, Schumpeterian innovations, rent-seeking behavior, political connections in resource-abundant economies, and technological sovereignty of extractive industries. His expertise spans over the construction of models of complex economic processes using the theory of fuzzy sets.