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âThe real competitors nowadays are Russia and the United States.
Europe is out of the game.
Tocqueville understood this a hundred years ago.
But the very idea of ââworld domination is also over.
What is coming is a new Nomos of the Earth, a new geographical order.
We must think in planetary terms, in the dimensions of a planetary geographical revolution. What is emerging now is a âwide open spaceâ order.
(Carl Schmitt wrote to Nicolaus Sombart between 1933 and 1943)
The current war between Russia and NATO in Ukraine is the result of this tension between land and sea powers (structural enemies: land/sea, empire/hegemon).
Geopolitics is âthe geographical consciousness of the Stateâ (K.Haushofer).
The State is a community of men in a defined space, or rather a civilization with clear boundaries;Â in this case we can speak of a âcivilization-stateâ â to use Weiwei Zhangâs concept, like China and Russia.
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For the German geopolitical scientist Karl Haushofer (1869-1946), geopolitics is neither right nor left, but aims to serve all humanity by promoting understanding between peoples. Haushoferâs object of study is the âgreat vital connections of todayâs man in todayâs spaceâ and his aim is âthe insertion of the individual into his natural environment and the coordination of the phenomena that connect the State to spaceâ .
This discipline also and above all aims to provide political decision makers with the intellectual tools necessary for an effective decision-making and action process.
However, what we see today is that there is a Chinese geopolitics, a Russian geopolitics and an American geopolitics, but there is no European geopolitics, since the Old Continent is integrated into the American glacis…
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