“POWER AND GAMING: TOOLS OF STRATEGY IN GEOPOLITICS. THE CASE OF UKRAINE”

“ I T ' S A G R E A T H U G E G A M E O F C H E S S T H A T ' S B E I N G P L A Y E D – A L L O V E R T H E W O R L D – I F

T H I S I S T H E W O R L D A T A L L , Y O U K N O W . O H , W H A T F U N I T I S ! H O W I W I S H I W A S O N E O F T H E M ! I W O U L D N ' T M I N D B E I N G A P A W N , I F O N LY I M I G H T J O I N – T H O U G H O F C O U R S E I

S H O U L D L I K E T O B E A Q U E E N , B E S T . "

Student: Olya Vaskova Georgieva

Supervisor: Prof. Lívia Franco

GENERAL INDEX

Balance of power & Game Theory

Game of Thrones

"The Grand Chessboard:

American primacy and its

geostrategic imperatives"

“Alice in Wonderland”

The case of Ukraine

“GAME OF THRONES”

“Too many strange faces, […] too many new players. The game changed while I lay rotting in my bed, and no one will tell me the rules.”

(Tyrion Lannister) “Some battles are won with swords and spears, others with quills and ravens.”

(Tywin Lannister)

“THE GRAND CHESSBOARD: AMERICAN PRIMACY AND ITS GEOSTRATEGIC IMPERATIVES”

“ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND”

“It's a great huge game of chess that's being played – all over the world – if this is the world at all, you know. Oh, what fun it is! How I wish I was one of them! I wouldn't mind being a Pawn, if only I might join – though of course I should like to be a Queen, best.”

GEOSTRATEGY, GEOPOLITICS & POLITICAL GE0GRAPHY

And why place actually matters?

THE CASE OF UKRAINE

THE CASE OF UKRAINE

THE CASE OF UKRAINE