After critical geopolitics

For years, critical geopolitics was the field to which many political geographers spoke. Although it has offered important insights into the spatialisation of world politics, critical geopolitics has struggled to adapt to new times because of two problems which have plagued it from the start: an undertheorised notion of critique and tensions between narrow and broad conceptions of geopolitics. What remains, I argue, is an anti-dogmatic, geographically informed, ideationally interested ethos to political geography which seeks out audiences beyond the academy.