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

Edited by Fred Phillips

in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Geopolitics; Semiconductors; AI; Cities; Economics; Security; Technopolis; Innovation; Technology; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Cyber Warfare; Technological Innovation; Super-States; Authoritarian Impulses; Trade; Capital Flows; International Supply Chains; Russian Bloc; China; Expansionist; Authoritarian; Authoritarian Tendencies; Global Landscape; Us Industrial Policy; Market Distortions; Economic Strategies; Climate Change; Pandemics; Demographic Shift; Long-term Sustainability; Short-Term Gains; National Security; Logistics; Neo-Colonial Dynamics; Cyber Technology; Biotechnology; Space Technology; Dystopia; Economic Policies; Urban AI Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Competition in the Semiconductor Industry; AI Race; Urban Energy; Urban Climate; Global Innovation; Immigration; Immigrant Entrepreneurship; Market Renewal; Post-World War II; Rules-Based System of International Order; Great-power Spheres of Influence; Russia; Ukraine; Communist; Great War Against the World; India; Innovation Economy; South Korea; Regional Innovation; Diplomacy; City-to-City Diplomacy; Technology-Driven Innovation; Evolving Geopolitics; Distributed Work; Air Cargo; Air Cargo Industry; Optimization; Technology in Optimization; Economic Challenges And Conflicts; Geopolitical Environment; Emerging Geopolitical Environment; Climate Crisis; Economic Theory; Radical Reform; Circuits; Systems; Social Change; Technological Forecasting; Science and Technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F50 F52 F53 F55 F59 O25 O33 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781800619470
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Complexity, Competition, and Turmoil in the Semiconductor Industry , pp 3-130

Mark Eaton

Ch 2 A Road Map to Win the AI Race: A 2025–2030 US Strategy , pp 131-138

Nasir Jamil Sheikh

Ch 3 Urban AI: Architecting Urban Energy and Climate —Benefits, Challenges, and Future Trajectories , pp 139-186

Tracy Kliphuis, Velimir Monty Vesselinov, Ari Markowitz, Adam Rupe and Rishi Yang

Ch 4 For Better or Worse: How Geopolitical Instability and Global Innovation Are Redefining US Universities , pp 189-216

Robert Ronstadt

Ch 5 Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Social Physics of Market Renewal , pp 217-248

John Sibley Butler and Bryan Stephens

Ch 6 From the Post-World War II Rules-Based System of International Order to Great-Power Spheres of Influence: A Deadly Challenge to Our Traditional System of Values-Based Alliances and Trade Policies , pp 251-276

Paul M. Joyal

Ch 7 The Bleeding Edge of the Future: Russia’s Ukraine Sin and Communist China’s Great War Against the World , pp 277-295

Austin Bay

Ch 8 Bharat and the Quest for Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: India’s Global Rise in a Divided World , pp 297-356

Manhar Singh

Ch 9 The Science and Innovation Economy , pp 359-380

Lynne Schneider and Joel Alleyne

Ch 10 A System for Technology-Driven Regional Innovation in South Korea , pp 381-409

Deog-Seong Oh and Danielle Swanepoel

Ch 11 City-to-City Diplomacy , pp 411-413

Kirk Watson

Ch 12 The Evolving Geopolitics of Distributed Work: A New Paradigm for a Changing World , pp 415-478

Michael B. Shear

Ch 13 The Air Cargo Industry: The Role of Technology in Optimisation , pp 481-505

Michael Webber

Ch 14 Economic Challenges and Conflicts in the Emerging Geopolitical Environment , pp 507-538

M. Ray Perryman

Ch 15 To Meet the Climate Crisis, Economic Theory Needs Radical Reform , pp 539-555

Fred Phillips and Angela Chao

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