This document discusses geopolitics and the use of power and gaming as strategic tools, using the case of Ukraine as an example. It draws comparisons to the game of chess and games of power and strategy portrayed in works like "Game of Thrones" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". It examines strategic geopolitical concepts like the balance of power and how location and place can have strategic importance in international politics.
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Power and Gaming -tools of strategy in geopolitics. The case of Ukraine
1. “POWER AND GAMING: TOOLS OF
STRATEGY IN GEOPOLITICS. THE CASE OF
UKRAINE”
“ I T ' S A G R E A T H U G E G A M E O F C H E S S T H A T ' S
B E I N G P L A Y E D – A L L O V E R T H E W O R L D – I F
T H I S I S T H E W O R L D A T A L L , Y O U K N O W . O H ,
W H A T F U N I T I S ! H O W I W I S H I W A S O N E O F
T H E M ! I W O U L D N ' T M I N D B E I N G A P A W N , I F
O N L Y I M I G H T J O I N – T H O U G H O F C O U R S E I
S H O U L D L I K E T O B E A Q U E E N , B E S T . "
Student: Olya Vaskova Georgieva
Supervisor: Prof. Lívia Franco
2. GENERAL INDEX
Balance of power &
Game Theory
Game of Thrones
"The Grand
Chessboard:
American primacy
and its geostrategic
imperatives"
“Alice in Wonderland”
The case of Ukraine
3. “GAME OF THRONES”
“Too many strange faces, […]
too many new players. The
game changed while I lay rotting
in my bed, and no one will tell
me the rules.”
(Tyrion Lannister)
“Some battles are won with swords
and spears, others with quills and
ravens.”
(Tywin Lannister)
5. “ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND”
“It's a great huge game of chess that's
being played – all over the world – if this
is the world at all, you know. Oh, what
fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I
wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I
might join – though of course I should
like to be a Queen, best.”