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📍Happening today - Missions in Action around the world. The implementation of missions is not always the same and is dependent on contextual factors and differs across actor typology, geography and scale. Join us as IIPP Professors Rainer Kattel and Rowan Conway convene two engaging discussions on the lessons we can learn from global mission practitioners, as well as examining the role citizens can play in mission-oriented approaches. 🔗Join the event here: https://lnkd.in/e3N7UbFn

🚀Missions in Action around the world. The implementation of missions is not always the same and is dependent on contextual factors and differs across actor typology, geography and scale. Join us as IIPP Professors Rainer Kattel and Rowan Conway convene an engaging online panel discussion on the lessons we can learn from global mission practitioners, as well as examining the role citizens can play in mission-oriented approaches. 🔗Register here: https://lnkd.in/gGGUAWeN

🚀Missions in Action around the world. The implementation of missions is not always the same and is dependent on contextual factors and differs across actor typology, geography and scale. Join us as IIPP Professors Rainer Kattel and Rowan Conway convene an engaging online panel discussion on the lessons we can learn from global mission practitioners, as well as examining the role citizens can play in mission-oriented approaches. 🔗Register here: https://lnkd.in/gGGUAWeN

A great read but a glossed over mechanism in geopolitical risk studies is the ripple effect. ———————————— TLDR: BRI’s flagship failure due to Pakistan’s governance instability = Intensification of US-China conflict over Taiwan ———————————— In some ways, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was a way for China to circumvent the two island chains that geographically and economically (and many argue militarily) contain it. Most of China’s manufactured exports and oil-imports are sensitive to blockades in the two island chains. It is a security issue for Beijing. BRI’s flagship failure in the form of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and the lack of alternative routes through the Central Asian Stans on its western border, means Beijing might refocus on weakening the American-allied island chains on its eastern coast. If the US is still following a Cold-War era domino theory, it might see Taiwan as the first domino that might take the two-island chains down with it- hence worth defending at immense cost, just like Vietnam and South Korea. Over here we see a ripple effect, Pakistan’s domestic governance instability, and the ensuing failure of CPEC, leads to a lack of alternatives for breaking out for China, and an accelerated re-focus on the two island chains- arguably one that might have happened perhaps a decade late were China successful in Pakistan and less irritated by its eastern containment.

A scientific research article on the topic of regeneration and a look at the BID approach. Published in the journal Geography and Territorial Spatial Arrangement. The link to access the article is as follows: https://lnkd.in/dQMexWFd

🚀Missions in Action around the world. The implementation of missions is not always the same and is dependent on contextual factors and differs across actor typology, geography and scale. Join us as IIPP Professors Rainer Kattel and Rowan Conway convene an engaging online panel discussion on the lessons we can learn from global mission practitioners, as well as examining the role citizens can play in mission-oriented approaches. 🔗Register here: https://lnkd.in/gGGUAWeN

🚀Missions in Action around the world. The implementation of missions is not always the same and is dependent on contextual factors and differs across actor typology, geography and scale. Join us as IIPP Professors Rainer Kattel and Rowan Conway convene an engaging online panel discussion on the lessons we can learn from global mission practitioners, as well as examining the role citizens can play in mission-oriented approaches. 🔗Register here: https://lnkd.in/gGGUAWeN

For this year's #WorldSoilDay, Dr Samuel Booth, Teaching Associate in Physical Geography at the University of Nottingham, delves into why soil matters, highlighting its crucial role in sustaining life on earth. Read here: https://lnkd.in/euk7z2GH

Don't miss our webinar, "It’s All Connected: Aligning Social Studies Courses" next week on April 11th at 3pm PDT! During this webinar, we'll explore the significance of alignment within social studies, particularly the influence of geography on human activities throughout history. Register here: https://buff.ly/3vvaikt

Middle powers come of age by leveraging their geography to their advantage. Here is Professor Adeel Malik describing this, from recent evidence. You can watch the full panel discussion he joined to talk about middle powers in 2025 here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d2T8d9qY