The Contemporary Geopolitical Perspective and Its Influence on Global Decision- Making

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