الجغرافيا السياسية لكوكب مختلّ: صدمة الأنثروبوسين

The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies published the book “Geopolitics of a Dysfunctional Planet: The Shock of the Anthropocene: Le Choc de l’Anthropocene” as part of the “Tarjuman” series, written by Jean-Michel Valentin. The book calls for a radical rethink of the way we read the world. The era we have entered is no longer just a new phase of climate change, but an era of profound geopolitical turmoil. Human activities have turned into a geological force that reshapes the balance of the planet. The author argues that traditional geopolitics - with its usual axes of control over land and fossil resources - is no longer sufficient to understand what is happening; Today, a new political geography is being formed, generated by climate, imposed by the environment, and compounded by population and technological pressure. Redefining political geography in the human age. Valentin believes that major environmental transformations - such as melting ice, rising seas, changing environmental regions, depleting natural resources, expanding mass migrations, and worsening biological crises - are no longer secondary elements in international decision-making, but rather have become fundamental drivers of conflict and drawing the balance of power. On this basis, the author highlights the “dangerous links” between economics, war and the environment, showing how resource scarcity is pushing major powers to reposition themselves in new strategic spaces such as the Arctic; Because climate changes open unprecedented political, economic and military horizons. In this context, major powers, such as Russia, China, and the United States of America, are repositioning themselves in this turbulent new political geography, all of which are developments already underway and not just future scenarios.