In this new episode, we'll focus on the Arctic Council, the crucial cooperation forum for this region.

Our guest is Svein Vigeland Rottem, senior research fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Norway. He's an expert on security, governance, and the Arctic Council.

We'll analyze the importance of the Arctic Council, its leadership, the challenges it faces, the pause in its operations in 2022 following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and why the region must maintain its geopolitical leadership and collaboration among the eight member states.

This episode is part of a full season dedicated to the Arctic.

In this five-episode season, we'll focus on the Arctic: a region of increasing strategic geopolitical competition, with enormous potential in terms of resources, shipping routes, and profound environmental changes.

In this first episode, we talk with Serafima Andreeva, a researcher at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Norway's leading research institute on Arctic international affairs.

Her work and research interests are primarily in governance and Arctic geopolitical dynamics, with a focus on analyzing geopolitical tensions.

In this episode, we'll discuss misconceptions about the Arctic and the realities shaping its future.

For this episode, we have as a co-host Andrey Todorov, a researcher and professor at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea and an expert in Arctic topics.

Uno de los estrechos con más oportunidades en el mundo es sin duda alguna el estrecho de Magallanes, una ruta estratégica en el extremo sur de Latino América para el comercio internacional y un punto clave para acceder a la Antártida.

En este episodio nos acompaña Sebastian Shulz, investigador en geopolítica y profesor de la Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata en Argentina. Es además el autor del artículo ¿Por qué el estrecho de Magallanes es un paso estratégico en disputa? publicado en TRT en español:

Abordamos el contexto histórico, comercial y geopolítico del Estrecho de Magallanes.

En la actualidad las noticias relacionadas al canal de panamá y su rol en las relaciones internacionales y geopolíticas están en las portadas internacionales debido a que desde que retorno al poder el presidente de los Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, desde que regresó al poder en enero, ha afirmado repetidamente su intención de retomar la influencia sobre el canal.

Amilcar Bonilla, profesor de Derecho en la Universidad de Panama es el autor de una interesante articulo titulado : Consideraciones Geopolíticas Del Canal De Panamá, publicado en la El Anuario de Derecho una Revista especializada y científica del Centro de Investigación Jurídica de la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Panamá.

En este episodio converso con el Profesor Bonilla conversamos acerca de la historia, la importancia y rol geopolítico del canal de panama en la actualidad mundial.

Bienvenidos a The Geopolitical Puzzle, En enero de 2025, el presidente Trump acaparó titulares al firmar una orden ejecutiva que renombró torno al Golfo de México, ¿o mejor dicho, el Golfo de América?

Una medida que generó controversia y debate y que tiene consecuencias mas alla de solo el cambio de nombre en cuanto a la geopolítica, diplomacia, comercio y mas.

Hoy, nuestro invitado es Eduardo Ordóñez, un analista mexicano especializado en riesgo geopolítico y seguridad con experiencia en análisis estratégico y evaluación de riesgo político y exploraremos qué hay detrás de este cambio de nombre, las reacciones que ha provocado y lo que podría significar para el futuro de esta vital región.

Welcome to The Geopolitical Puzzle. In this episode, my guest is Yunus Turhan, Associate Professor at the Ankara HacıBayramVeli University in Turkey and Post Doctoral Researcher at Harvard University.

He also authorizes an interesting paper, "The hydro-political dilemma in Africa water geopolitics: The case of the Nile River basin."

We discuss the importance of the Nile River in geopolitics and its impact on the African countries that share its basin.

Link paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10246029.2020.1844775

Today, in this episode, my guest is Professor Andrey Todorov.

Professor Todorov is a researcher on the Arctic Ocean, polar shipping regulation, ecosystem-based marine management, and maritime disputes in the Arctic.

In this episode, we talk about the Bering Strait, its importance in the Arctic, and the role of the United States and Russia in this crucial maritime passage.

Shipping Governance in the Bering Strait Region: Protecting the Diomede Islands and Adjacent Waters

Welcome to The Geopolitical Puzzle; today, my guest is Federico Donelli.

Federico Donelli is an international relations professor at the University of Trieste in Italy. He covers Red Sea security and politics.

He is the author of an interesting article published in The Conversation: "Red Sea Politics: Why Turkey is Helping Somalia Defend its Waters."

He is also the author of the book "Turkey in Africa: Turkey's Strategic Involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa."

In this episode, Federico Donelli shares why the Red Sea is important in Geopolitics and why Turkey is so interested in this region of Africa, especially its defense and maritime agreements with Somalia.

Link article: Red Sea politics: why Turkey is helping Somalia defend its waters https://theconversation.com/red-sea-politics-why-turkey-is-helping-somalia-defend-its-waters-224377