Nowa geopolityka sieciowa
The New Network Geopolitics

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to identify key factors constituting the frame ofthe new geopolitics. This objective will be accomplished through applyingsome aspects of the network approach widely use in contemporary social sciences.Use of the network metaphor enables us to capture the essence of processesand phenomena shaping the external and internal environment of political,economical and social institutions participating in global exchange. In the modernworld, networks are often used as the exchange platforms enabling dynamicmove of goods, ideas, values etc. Deeply involved in this exchange are: states,transnational corporations, criminal groups, terrorist networks, nongovernmentalorganizations, global social movements and citizens organized invarious associations, clubs, and unions. All of these actors meet together on interrelatedplanes, participating in ephemeral and permanent, single and repeatedacts of exchange.Networks completely re-define the crucial concepts of traditional geopolitics.The new global reality is made of dynamic networks of power arising in economic,political, religious, criminal, charity and terrorist fields. Network approachallows scientists to capture dynamics of global order, complexity of exchangebetween various categories of global actors, formation and evolution ofinternational alliances made between formal and informal power holders.

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