Abstract
ABSTRACTChokepoints are essential elements of systems centred on the regulation of flow. Geophysical chokepoints, sites of topographic narrowing, play a key role in what I call ‘vascular geopolitics’, or geopolitics based on the control of circulation rather than the control of territory. Using the case of the Roki Tunnel, which goes beneath the Caucasus mountains to connect Russia and Georgia, I show how Russia has attempted to exercise neocolonial control over the breakaway province of South Ossetia and of Georgia proper by maintaining control of the tunnel. However, chokepoints can be transformed in kind and moved in space, and this has allowed Georgians to contest this form of regional geopolitics.
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