The Contemporary Geopolitical Perspective and Its Influence on Global Decision Making

Contemporary geopolitics has undergone a structural transformation driven by fragmented multipolarity, technological acceleration, and the emergence of a global polycrisis. This article proposes an analytical framework based on the geopolitical perspective, understood as a cognitive operator that organizes the interpretation of the international environment and shapes decision-making under uncertainty. Integrating insights from structural realism, critical geopolitics, geoeconomics, and complex systems theory, the study examines how states construct perceptual frameworks that influence economic, technological, and security strategies. The analysis identifies four central axes: the state as an economic factor, the rise of fragmented multipolarity, technology as an instrument of spatial power, and decision-making in polycrisis environments. The article concludes that the quality of global decisions increasingly depends on the cognitive structures through which reality is interpreted, rather than on the availability of data alone.