Energized Geopolitical Turmoil in the Endangered Eastern Mediterranean: Towards Anthropocene geopolitics?
Energized Geopolitical Turmoil in the Endangered Eastern Mediterranean: Towards Anthropocene geopolitics?

Author(s): Emre İşeri
Subject(s): Geopolitics
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Energized; Geopolitical; Turmoil; Endangered; Eastern Mediterranean; Towards; Anthropocene; geopolitics;
Summary/Abstract: As the Republic of Turkey reaches its centennial, it has still been struggling with various foreign policy conflicts inherited from the Ottoman Empire. Among those issues, the Cyprus question strikes out as one of those intractable conflicts. Contrary to those initially optimistic perspectives that those relatively recently discovered potential energy reserves would serve as catalysts to bring peace to the island, those resources have actually put further strained geopolitical rivalry between Greece and Turkey as the kin states of divided Cyprus. Differently put their geopolitical ambitions, clashing maritime claims, and the perception of energy resources/their transportation routes as strategic assets have paved the way for antagonism juxtaposed around the Cyprus problem. The primary regional actors of the conflict - Greece and Turkey- have been insisting on their maximalist outlook to gain the upper hand in the ongoing geopolitical rivalry over the fossil fuels adjunct to Cyprus in the engendered Eastern Mediterranean. However, those states’ conventional geopolitical lenses have remained myopic in the new geographical epoch, namely the Anthropocene (the age of humans) in which the very existence of humans is in jeopardy.

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