Geography vs. Geopolitics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4490722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isaiah Bowman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1942 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 646 |
| Publication date | 1942-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/210002 |
| OpenAlex | W2328227275 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
THE current discussion of German writings involves the names, outlook, and reputation of certain American geographers, my own included. What was their position respecting geopolitics before general condemnation of Hitler and the Nazi program began? Did they foresee the evil consequences of German perversion of truth in the alleged new science of geopolitics which made use of the overlapping data of history, political science, and geography? It has recently been declared that American geopolitics was developed before it was taken up in Germany. The bad effect of this assertion touches more than personal or professional repute. It has given the question a national context. Geopolitics presents a distorted view of the historical, political, and geographical relations of the world and its parts. It identifies no universal force or process like gravity. It is relative to the state to which it is applied. At least so say its advocates. Its arguments as developed in Germany are only made up to suit the case for German aggression. It contains, therefore, a poisonous self-destroying principle: when international interests conflict or overlap might alone shall decide the issue. Against geopolitical needs democracy opposes moral rights. Let us look first at the way in which this opposition arises
Economic geography · Geography · Geopolitics · Physical geography · Political science · Politics · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
De la guerra de Putin al cambio climático
The Banality of Empire
Les géographes et la justice spatiale
Mackinder's “heartland” – legitimation of US foreign policy in World War II and the Cold War of the 1950s
Political Geography in the Geographical Review
Re-reading Niebuhr’s The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
Political geography and Morgenthau’s early American works
The critical reading/writing of geopolitics
History and philosophy of geography II
Between Man and Nature
Isaiah Bowman, 1878–1950
On the history of a subterranean geopolitics
Area Studies, Zomia and Southeast Asia
From "Primitive Migration" to "Climate Refugees
The Centenary Celebration of Sino-American Intellectual Friendship
Disciplinary Conquest
The origins and evolution of geopolitics
City‐regions and a federal Europe
To Build a Notion
Mapping a New World
Ratzel, the French School and the birth of Alternative Geopolitics
"With almost clean or at most slightly dirty hands". On the self-denazification of German geography after 1945 and its rebranding as a science of peace
The need and ability for expansion
The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics
(Dis)placing Geopolitics
Tracking and Tracing
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 1944 - 2025 (82) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |