The Three Critical Flaws of Critical Geopolitics

Towards a Neo-Classical Geopolitics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3948982
AutoresTerrence W Haverluk (United States Air Force Academy), Kevin M Beauchemin (United States Air Force Academy), Brandon A Mueller (United States Air Force Academy)
Año2014
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas19-39
Fecha de publicación2014-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2013.803192
OpenAlexW2073041377
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

Critical geopolitics is the dominant school of geopolitics in contemporary geography. Critical geopolitics is a body of radical scholarship that emerged in the 1980s that attempts to move beyond classic geopolitics. In order to resuscitate geopolitics, critical geopoliticians had to distance themselves from the imperialist, racist, and environmentally determinist geopolitics of the 1940s. In doing so, however, critical geopoliticians created a body of scholarship that omits important explanatory variables necessary to understand post–Cold War geopolitics. We argue that critical geopolitics unnecessarily limits the wider application of geopolitics because it is: 1) anti-geopolitics; 2) anti-cartographic; and 3) anti-environmental

Cold war · Determinism · Epistemology · Geopolitics · International relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Philosophy · Transboundary Water Resource Management