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Is Geopolitics Still Relevant? Halford Mackinder and the War in Ukraine
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Abstract This paper starts with an assumption that geopolitics, understood as one of the great schools of international relations, is not only still relevant but, indeed, should be one of the essential items in the toolkit of any student or policymaker who peruses the challenging and ever-eluding realm of in... mehr
This paper starts with an assumption that geopolitics, understood as one of the great schools of international relations, is not only still relevant but, indeed, should be one of the essential items in the toolkit of any student or policymaker who peruses the challenging and ever-eluding realm of international security. It draws chiefly on Sir Halford Mackinder's Heartland theory in order to explain the dynamics of contemporary European security in general, and the ongoing war in Ukraine in particular. The analysis, which relies heavily on a historical examination of the geopolitical realities of Central and Eastern Europe, leads the author to a pair of conclusions. Firstly, the conflict in Ukraine is likely to linger on albeit with unpredictable intensity and, secondly perhaps more importantly, the outcome of the war will only be one of many steps leading to the emergence of a new, possibly multipolar, international system and consequently, and more obviously, a new security system in Europe, which will be strongly influenced by Germany rather than by the United States as before.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Geopolitik; internationale Beziehungen; internationale Sicherheit; europäische Sicherheit; Ukraine; Krieg; internationales System
Klassifikation
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Heartland Theory; Halford Mackinder
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Seitenangabe
S. 7-25
Zeitschriftentitel
Studia Europejskie - Studies in European Affairs, 27 (2023) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.33067/SE.4.2023.1
ISSN
1428-149X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)