Using insights from critical geopolitics and cultural history, this book focuses on how the academic discipline of geopolitics was created, negotiated, and contested by a wide variety of intellectuals, practitioners, and academics. Many geopoliticians wish to begin by requiring that geopolitics take responsibility for its misuse in the past. Many also agree that this science must reconceptualize geopolitics to account for the many changes which have occurred in the late 20th, and early 21st, centuries. This book considers how geopolitical writings have been influenced by religion, iconography, and doctrine. It also considers how geopolitics has been reformulated in the post-World War II period.
Author(s): James Biser Whisker, Kevin Spiker
Series: Political Science and History
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 249
City: New York
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Defining Geopolitics
Chapter 2
Earliest Geographers
Early Religion and Geopolitics
The Hebrew Bible and Geography
Earliest Greeks and Geography
Aristotle and the Founding of Geopolitics
Later Greek Geographers
Chapter 3
Early Modern Geopolitics
Jean Bodin
Montesquieu
Later Figures
Chapter 4
Rudolf Kjellén
Chapter 5
Friedrich Ratzel
Ratzel and Peschel
Ratzel’s Geography
Chapter 6
Alfred Mahan
Chapter 7
Halford Mackinder
Mackinder’s Geography
Geographical Pivot of History
Contemporary Impact
Chapter 8
Karl Haushofer
Haushofer and the Nazis
Biography
Basic Concepts of Haushofer’s Geopolitik
Geostrategy
Albrecht Haushofer
Chapter 9
Geopolitics in France
Vidal de la Blache
Albert Demangeon
Yves Lacoste
Henri Decugis
Jacques Ancel
Charles Maurras
André Siegfried
Chapter 10
Spykman and the Rimland Thesis
Chapter 11
Some Important Geopoliticians
Peter Kropotkin
James Fairgrieve
Norman Angell
Isaiah Bowman
Chapter 12
Alexander Dugin
Fourth Political Theory
Geopolitics
Publications
Perspectives
Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
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