Sophia Kalantzakos is Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research centers on the geopolitics of critical minerals, the transition to a net zero future, and the fourth industrial revolution. Her work, in particular, examines how resource competition in an era of fraught geopolitics has tilted the balance toward more securitized assessments of global interdependence. She examines China’s global aspirations manifested in the Belt and Road Initiative, Europe’s reckoning with a seismic push against both its normative and economic power, and the US’s re-evaluation of its leadership role in the global order. Her most recent publications include CriticalMinerals, the Climate Crisis and the Tech-Imperium, editor (Cham, Switzerland: Springer 2023), China and the Geopolitics of Rare Earths (Oxford University Press, 2018; rev.2021) and The EU, US, and China Tackling Climate Change: Policies and Alliances for the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017).
Sophia Kalantzakos
Guest Speaker
Global Distinguished Professor in Environmental Studies and Public Policy, New York University Abu Dhabi, the UAE
