Geopolitics. A historical review

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - Basics and General, grade: A, ( Atlantic International University ), course: Geopolitics, language: English, abstract: To begin with, we would like to highlight that doing research on geopolitics has brought us to go deeper into a certain literature that enabled us to understand from the very beginning what geopolitics was meant for. The literature we have used consists of two categories, books relative to the latest changes on the discipline; we mean geopolitics in the present. The other literature is concerned with books of the 1990s with some authors like Ó Tuathail, Dalby and others, books that give a historical perspective of geopolitics. Furthermore, we believe that for a discipline like geopolitics that we have never studied in our previous university studies, we did not just need to make a good assignment and that is all, but also to acquire tools that might help us to be knowledgeable in that coursework. For this reason, we needed to read books that analyze and explain what the essence of geopolitics is. Our basic thesis statement is that the geographical conditions of a country, this is to say that its endowment in natural resources can have an impact on its geopolitical orientation, which is its foreign policy. In other words, geographical conditions influence a country's foreign policy or attitude in international affairs. This we will provide an example with Gabon, our home country.

Auteur

Dr.Jean Cedric Obame Emane is a high rank university scholar and researcher at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels. He has made major contributions to the scientific community regarding the quality of the researches he has conducted so far. He is currently working on the paper "The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Doctrine and the Sovereignty of States".