Das, Mrinal Kumar

Geoeconomics - IIPA Digest: Building capacity for governance - 4(3), July - September, 2022: p. 30-33

Origins of Geoeconomics can be traced to the beginning of human civilization itself. Geoeconomics as a
geopolitical pressure choke is not new. In more recent past it used to be a part of geopolitics, serving both as
a means and an end. Few developments of twentieth and twenty-first century indicate that geoeconomics has
come out of the closet of geopolitics and assumed primacy in foreign policy. Looking at events surrounding a
few geopolitical hotspots, controversies involving climate change gives interesting insights. - Reproduced