Dix ans de L’Espace politique. Géographie politique et géopolitique en question

Abstract

This editorial on the anniversary of the ten-year anniversary of L'Espace politique first returns to the journal: the circumstances of its creation, its objectives and its dissemination. The author then sketches an epistemological account of the past decade in political geography and geopolitics. He underlines the domination of the "critical" school. Finally, he tries to highlight some of the main trends in the evolution of the world over the last ten years, notably the rehabilitation of the use of force in international relations, the cracking of regional agreements, the reconstruction of political systems in the Democratic (or pseudo-democratic) framework. He concludes by emphasizing the domination of the anthropological scale (large scale) and themes related to individuals rather than the analysis of the state of the world (small scale). This posture, if too systematic, can be problematic.

Keywords

• political geography
• geopolitics
• critical geopolitics
• L’Espace politique
• epistemology