Abstract
The global trade landscape is undergoing profound structural changes, giving rise to five frontier research directions in trade geography. These include: (1) assessing the spatial impacts of increasingly fragmented and regionalized trade systems; (2) examining how digitalization and automation reshape industrial and trade geographies; (3) analyzing the spatial interplay between climate risks, trade resilience, and low-carbon transitions; (4) exploring cities’ roles in knowledge-based global value chains; and (5) integrating geopolitical perspectives to understand strategic trade vulnerabilities. These directions form a multidimensional framework for interpreting global trade dynamics and guiding regional and global policy responses.
