Geopolitical Views Research Articles

"Urbanofilia" e "urbanofobia" na geopolítica: as cidades e a urbanização no pensamento geopolítico alemão do entre-guerras e na geopolítica brasileira do regime de 64

This paper results from two short sections of the author's PhD thesis. The main purpose of this article is to focus a subject almost unknow in Brazil: The view of the German geopoliticians of the 30s on the urbanization and the cities, in relation to the thought of the German geographer Friedrich Ratzel and the Brazilian geopolitics during the military rule. One can only understand the "urbanophilia" of Ratzel, the "urbanophobia" of the German geopoliticians, and the more complex view of the Brazilian geopolitics of the Post-64 period, within their respective sociohistorical contexts. Despite there are doctrinal similarities among Ratzel's work and the thought of German geopoliticians of the 30s, and among the German geopoliticians and the Brazilian geopolitics of the Post-64 period, the different socio-historical situations explain the different views in relation to the urbanization and its significance in terms of "progress" and "development".

Political Geography of the Twentieth Century: A Global Analysis

Introduction - a century of political geography, Peter J. Taylor: fin-de-siecle geopolitics war and order the rise of the state the American century prologue - fin de siecle geopolitics - Mackinder, Hobson and theories of global closure, Gerry Kearns: fin de siecle geoeconomics Mackinder and Hobson global economics global strategy global development weaknesses of the ecological view of geopolitics. Part 1 Geopolitical world orders, Peter J. Taylor: geopolitical analysis geopolitical world order of the British succession the Cold War geopolitical world order a new geopolitical world order. Part 2 Political geography of war and peace, John O'Loughlin and Herman van der Wusten: introduction 20th century, bloody century wars, wars everywhere, is not a theory there? great power developments in the 20th century fragile underpinnings of peace temporal and spatial distribution of war war cycles and economic cycles in the 20th century global wars local wars. Part 3 The rise and decline of the corporate-welfare state - a comparative analysis in global context, R.J. Johnson: the state in operation - some quantitative indicators why the state? the economic context of state action 20th-century crises and the state in the core of the capitalist world-economy the free economy and the strong state four vignettes - New Zealand, West Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom crisis and the state beyond the capitalist core. Part 4 Colonialism, postcolonialism and the political geography of the Third World, Stuart Corbridge: the commands of empire (writing history) the search for a text (writing politics). Part 5 The United States and American hegemony, John Agnew: American hegemony and American history America's rise to power superpower years the new world order? America's impasse. Part 6 Epilogue - fin de siecle geopolitics - towards a geographical dialogue: nationalism versus World Society - a view from Russia, Vladimir Kolossov from hegemony to co-operation - a view from Japan, Akihiko Takagi demography and division - a view from the Middle East, Ghazi Falah globalization and the semi-periphery - a view from Brazil, Bertha K. Becker democracy and privatization - a view from India, Chandra Pal Singh coercion and instability - a view from Nigeria/Africa, C.O. Ikporukpo.

アメリカ合衆国の大学における世界地理教育の展開 地理教育の国際化のための諸概念

The importance of internationalizing geographical education in Japanese schools has been highly recognized. In this paper, the undergraduate courses of World Regional Geography offered by the Ohio State University is examined, in terms of several important concepts for internationalization. The highlighted concepts are three-fold: firstly, an aspect of historical processes of countries; secondly, geopolitical views on national territory, and the spatial incongruity between state and nation; lastly, the concept of spatial connectivity developed among the countries.Those concepts will be instrumental in overcoming the environmental deterministic structure of the traditional regional geography, and to create a more dynamic and integrated world regional geography.

Monitoring the environment

B. Cartledge: Introduction R. Southwood: The environment: problems and prospects M. Heseltine: The environment: a geo-political view J. Mason: The greenhouse effect and global warming C. Tickell: Implications of global climatic change J. Lovelock: The Earth is not fragile J. Woods: Monitoring the ocean G. Prance: The dilemma of the Amazon rainforests: biological reserve or exploitable resource? J. Phillipson: The natural world: a global casino Index.

Hitler and Genghis Khan

In a radio broadcast to the British public on 24 August 1941, Winston Churchill observed that the German police troop executions in Russia surpassed anything since the Mongol invasions of Europe in the sixteenth century: 'There has never [since] been methodical, merciless butchery on such a scale, or approaching such a scale'.' Churchill would have done better to locate the Mongol hordes in the thirteenth century, but in other respects his analogy was unwittingly apt. The Mongols held a significant role in Adolf Hitler's bastardized view of world history and geopolitics, a role that has gone largely unnoticed.' To a certain extent, Hitler's policies in the east were designed to remedy the 'Mongol problem' -not as salient as the Jewish question, but perceived as a long-term danger nonetheless. In other ways, however, Hitler was consciously following what he had learned about Genghis Khan's methods. Hitler obliquely acknowledged a source of information about Genghis Khan in one of his most famous or infamous speeches, to the commanders of the armed services on 22 August 1939.

The Russian Dilemma: A Political and Geopolitical View

The Russian Dilemma: A Political and Geopolitical View

The Russian Dilemma: A Political and Geopolitical View, by Robert G. Wesson

The Russian Dilemma: A Political and Geopolitical View, <i>by Robert G. Wesson</i>

Changing Geopolitical Views

Changing Geopolitical Views

A German View of Geopolitics: Review

A German View of Geopolitics: Review