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Golden age of geopolitics: second half of the 19 th century first part of the 20 th century. Hausofer’s death put a shift in the geopolitics history End of Geopolitik. Before his death geopolitics was assimilated to a science to achieve political goals. Geopolitics and strategy = political decisionsTRANSCRIPT
Origins of geopolitics
Golden age of geopolitics: second half of the 19th century first part of the 20th century.
Hausofer’s death put a shift in the geopolitics history
End of Geopolitik.Before his death geopolitics was assimilated to a science to achieve political goals.
Geopolitics and strategy = political decisions
ScientismScience is a way to get explanation
about facts. Religion lost its importance.
Science helps men to understand humanity
Causes + facts = determinismNew theories :
PositivismMarxismPsychoanalysis
Men is the main center of topics and can dominate everything
Geopolitics got its roots from scientism
Social DarwinismHuman is under the evolution law.Human has to fight to surviveHuman has to conquer territories to settleTerritories became a object of desire
(Jerusalem) Human gets different with animals
because he mastersTools (weapons, navy = colonies)WritingsPower
FactsThe first WW offers a new vision of
geopoliticsCompetition between European Nations
and emergence of US and JapanColonizationImperialism1920 treaties follow the logic of DarwinEnd of empiresSanction of GermanyThe two second world wars illustrates the
vision of Darwinism
Classic geopolitics
Geopolitik death, geopolitics birthIn 1945 end of faith in science and progressGeopolitics is more specificUS : world peace with IOUSSR : Construction and protection of USSRUK : seeks US protectionCold war : more geopolitical approach than
ideologicalEx: Viet-Nam war:hegemonic vision of US
against soviet expansionism and Viet-Name.se Nationalism
Alliance between China and US to counter USSR