Policy Brief - The Atlantic Basin, Realism and Geostrategy (II): The Strategic Significance of

Nevertheless, the growing geostrategic influence of the multipoles of the coalition of the Rest is still balanced off by the continuing military superiority in the Northern Atlantic on the plane of geopolitical power, and by a resilient U. [...] See the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, “The Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation”, March 31, 2023 ( ); and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, “Proposal of the People’s Republic of China on the Reform and Development of Global Governance”, Xinhua, 13, 2023 (https:. [...] Similar, if more limited, amplifying effects might also be felt in the euro zone, where nationalism and right-wing political forces are on the rise in the wake of the direct and indirect impacts of the trade wars of the Trump era, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the multiple packages of sanctions against Russia and their economic consequences in Europe. [...] Whether the future between the Northern Atlantic, on the one hand, and Eurasia and the rest of the BRICS-sphere, on the other, is to be cooperative or conflictive, the strategic significance of the Atlantic Basin will continue to rise for both blocs. [...] Isbell is the author of Energy and the Atlantic: The Shifting Energy Landscapes of the Atlantic Basin (2012); co-author and editor of The Future of Energy in the Atlantic Basin (2015), and of Energy and Transportation in the Atlantic Basin (2017).