A Critique of Critical Geopolitics

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ID3948933
AuthorsPhil Kelly (0000-0002-9112-736X, Emporia State University, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume11
Issue1
Pages24-53
Publication date2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650040500524053
OpenAlexW2039139530
LanguageEN
Citations received54

Comparisons between classical and critical geopolitics are made with the suggestion that both versions, although different in most respects, are equally legitimate for study and perhaps may be brought closer together, at least in ways that may complement each other, after inspection of their comparative approaches. The classical version deserves consideration as a contribution to international relations theory and to foreign policy making. The critical approach provides a needed and necessary critique of the classical, exposing its weaknesses and suggesting an emancipatory alternative. Accordingly, the author has selected a variety of associated characteristics that show the primary variations between the classical and the critical, illustrated by appropriate quotations and examples, with again the conclusion that both versions of geopolitics, the classical and the critical, merit credibility, and that a possibility exists where certain connections may be located between the two that could mutually clarify and strengthen their unique contributions to geopolitics as a whole

Epistemology · Geopolitics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics

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