Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts In Defense of Classical Geopolitics

In Defense of Classical Geopolitics

Abstract

First published in 1999 in the Naval War College Review, this article is republished unchanged here as an example of how geopolitical reasoning can be used to make predictions about the future. The article first reviews the development and critique of classical geopolitics, defending it as a legitimate approach to understanding international relations, and then uses geopolitics as a lens to predict trends in the world of the twenty-first century.

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