„Класична“ и „неоевроазиска“ геополитичка мисла

Abstract

The development of contemporary geopolitical thought is burdened with various dualities in terms of previous knowledge and basic scientific discourses of (classical) geopolitics. One of today’s geopolitical direction largely denies the importance of geographical factors and physical characteristics of the territory, while others emphasize them as an important reference point for identifying the modern trends in the development of geopolitical thought. On the other hand, as a result of the eternal contest between land and sea (Theory of Hartland and Rimland) contemporary geopolitical thought constantly upgraded with new development tendencies which are based on the postulates of classical geopolitics, and critique of these postulates. The dynamic context of contemporary international relations opened wide horizons for the development and modeling of existing knowledge of geopolitics. This trend seeks each geopolitical subsequent geopolitical thought to respond to contemporary geopolitical occurrences in the world. The paper is specifically focused on the theoretical and practical elaboration of eurasianism and neoeurasianism as learning that seeks to elaborate Russian geopolitical thought of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century.

Keywords

• russia
• eurasianism
• neo-eurasianism
• geopolitics