> I can't speak for others, but any critique of geopolitics *should* have a
> moment of playfulness, of utopian wishing which overshoots its object, in
> the sense that the drama of human liberation is the greatest story ever
> told.
Well put. However, very few actually existing discussions on geopolitics are critiques--or at best are critiques of one side--and even fewer are playful or utopian. They are mostly grim exercises in side-taking and advice-giving, not to mention being completely free of matters of political economy. But even if they were playful, "human liberation" is incompatible with geopolitics, which, as the study of the interplay between states, is at bottom about the containment of movement and change.