POLS5613 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pipeline Transport, Flag Of Turkey, National Oil Company
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Critical geopolitics: formal geopolitics: foreign policy, academic studies, practical geopolitics: political speeches, actions by state and non-state actors, popular geopolitics: media, culture, public opinion. Origins: associated with hitler, lebensraum and geopolitics institute, karl haushofer leader, largely disappeared after wwii as was associated with nazism. Geopolitics argues that: human beings interact within a territorial dimension territory is key, at its most extreme it argues that globalisation doesn"t exist, deterritorialisation results in some form of reterritorialisation. Ir: maintains that geography/territory are central, largely excludes political geography to world politics, history is important (geopolitics) and often fails to take territory into account when examining conflicts, places theories and methods within grand. *geopolitics looks at the contributing factors to the politics between geopolitical actors e. g. geography. Heartland (territory: 1861-1947 paradigms to explain world politics e. g. liberalism, marxism, realism, constructivism. 2: who rules east europe commands the heartland; who rules the. Russian heartland" his theory is a threat against the western.
