Lecture 3 Flashcards
What is Geopolitics?
Political processes and actions that impact on people and place
What was the idea of a bi polar world?
The idea of communism and capitalism during the Cold War
What was the world not occupying a communist or capitalist known as?
The 3rd world
What was Russia and northern Asia known as before the world wars?
A pivot area between world balance (Mackinder 1904)
What was the Mackinder heartland theory?
All of the world power was focused on a pivot area, control would lead to world domination
How did Huntington (1996) group the world in the remaking of the world order?
Western, orthodox. Islamic, African, Latin American, Sinic, Hindu, Buddhist, Japanese and Lone
How did Huntington define civilisations?
Like tectonic plates where they move over time and conflict results in friction
When did academic geographers give up on geopolitics?
After WW2
According to Toal and Agnew what is geopolitics?
A discursive practise by which intellectuals spatialise international policies to represent it as a world characterised by people and places
How did president label terrorists after 9 11?
Evil
What is the God trick?
The sarcastic that people who map the world must see it all from space, arguments that these maps are not accurate
