Scholarly literature has recently developed the notions of Anthropocene geopolitics and planetary security. How these relate to and whether they inform states’ foreign policy, however, remains a largely underdeveloped issue. This article goes some way toward addressing this gap both theoretically and empirically. Theoretically, it unpacks how traditional and Anthropocene geopolitics diverge in their approach toward the security repercussions of climate change and teases out the emanating foreign policy implications. These revolve around different levels of climate ambition, divergent approaches to fossil energy geopolitics, and differing weighting of planetary security versus mainstream geopolitical threats. Against this theoretical background, this article empirically zooms in on the EU case to explore which geopolitical mindset guides EU’s pursuit of climate change concerns and their incorporation in the EU foreign policy design. The analysis finds that, despite its comprehensive foreign climate policy initiatives, the EU remains fixed to a traditional geopolitical mindset and a foreign policy that underappreciates planetary security threats. This article subsequently operationalizes a foreign policy design informed by the Anthropocene geopolitics approach and sketches what it would entail.

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人类世地缘政治与外交政策：探索欧盟案例中的联系

学术文献最近发展了人类世地缘政治和行星安全的概念。然而，这些与各国外交政策的关系以及它们是否会影响各国的外交政策仍然是一个很大程度上未开发的问题。这篇文章从理论上和经验上都在某种程度上解决了这个差距。从理论上讲，它揭示了传统地缘政治和人类世地缘政治在处理气候变化安全影响的方法上是如何不同的，并梳理出由此产生的外交政策影响。这些围绕着不同程度的气候雄心、对化石能源地缘政治的不同方法，以及行星安全与主流地缘政治威胁的不同权重。在这样的理论背景下，本文从经验上放大了欧盟案例，以探讨哪种地缘政治思维指导欧盟寻求气候变化问题并将其纳入欧盟外交政策设计。分析发现，尽管欧盟采取了全面的外交气候政策举措，但仍坚持传统的地缘政治思维方式和低估行星安全威胁的外交政策。本文随后实施了以人类世地缘政治方法为依据的外交政策设计，并概述了它所需要的内容。欧盟仍然固守传统的地缘政治思维方式和低估行星安全威胁的外交政策。本文随后实施了以人类世地缘政治方法为依据的外交政策设计，并概述了它所需要的内容。欧盟仍然固守传统的地缘政治思维方式和低估行星安全威胁的外交政策。本文随后实施了以人类世地缘政治方法为依据的外交政策设计，并概述了它所需要的内容。