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Critical Minerals
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Professor 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 examines how resource competition in an era of fraught geopolitics has tilted the balance toward securitized assessments of global interdependence. Moreover, she examines China’s global aspirations manifested through the Belt and Road Initiative and ecological civilization, 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. Kalantzakos’ publications include , editor (Cham, Switzerland: Springer 2023), (Oxford University Press, 2018; rev.2021) and (Routledge, 2017). Kalantzakos is the Founding Head of eARThumanities and the research initiatives at NYUAD. She was a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU, a Fung Fellow at Princeton, and RIHST fellow at Caltech and the Huntington. Kalantzakos’ new project addresses the geopolitics of food security in the Anthropocene.