GEOG 2337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Geostrategy, Geopolitics, The Great Game
9 Feb 2020
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Geopolitics: geopolitics a study of the geographic influences on power and international relations. Influenced by 3 streams of thought: geostrategy, social darwinism, environmental determinism. Geostrategy: geostrategy a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographic factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning, stresses the importance of arable land, climate, topography and access to seas. Social darwinism: social darwinism the idea that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as found in plants and animals, survival of the fittest. Environmental determinism: environmental determinism the idea that physical environments predispose societies towards particular development trajectories, ex. Modern geopolitics: geostrategy, political systems, new environmentalism. Political systems: political systems asserts that political systems are the driving factors underlining environmental change, resource depletion, and ultimately policy and geopolitical action. New environmentalism: new environmentalism a movement that factors environmental costs into policy making. Industrial revolution and spatial struggle for control: the great game.
