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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is often credited with the revival of American interest in geopolitics even if his usage was far more informal than the turn-of-the-century exponents. Kissinger, as a German migr and intellectual whose doctoral thesis had analysed 19th-century European geopolitical history, was
come to grips with a new strategic landscape. In the main, as Leslie Hepple has recorded, he uses the term to highlight the
importance of global equilibrium and permanent national interests in a world characterized by a balance of power. Eager to promote a new relationship with China, he argued that Moscows geopolitical ambitions needed to be contained:
Equilibrium was the name of the game. We did not seek to join China in a provocative confrontation with the Soviet Union. But we agreed on the necessity to curb Moscows geopolitical ambitions. Pekings challenge was polemical and philosophical; it opposed not only Moscows geopolitical aspirations but also its ideological pre-eminence. We agreed on the necessity of thwarting the geopolitical ambitions, but we had reason to become involved in the ideological dispute.
While the United States strived to contain the Soviet Union, Kissinger believed that existing American foreign policy had been too eager to promote a military response to this dilemma. Instead what was required was, in an era of relative American military decline, an approach which was flexible and attentive to new political possibilities such as developing relations with other powers like China.
Geopoltica
Necesidad y justificacin
17/08/2012
Introduccin
La geopoltica es esencial para entender las interrelaciones entre pueblos y pases Las fronteras siguen siendo shatterbelts en ciertos casos
Historia de la geopoltica
Mackinder: La geopoltica como determinismo de la ciencia de la geografa Haushofer: La geopoltica como justificacin determinista de la expansin de la Alemania nazi Spykman: la geopoltica como ciencia social, humana, con base geogrfica, enfocada a las relaciones internacionales Wolfers: el modelo de poder puro, geografa puede ser controlada
La Geoestrategia describe donde un Estado dirige sus esfuerzos militares y diplomticos. Debido a la escasez de recursos, los Estados, incluso los ms poderosos, deben elegir donde proyectar su poder e influencia, impartiendo una direccin geogrfica clara a su poltica exterior.
Justificando la geopoltica
Los Estados ejercen su poder, no en una mesa de billar, sino en el mar, a travs
de montaas y llanuras, y su xito depende sobre todo de su capacidad para hacer coincidir su poltica exterior con la situacin geopoltica subyacente.
Entendiendo la geopoltica
La geopoltica permite extrapolar conclusiones por el estudio de la importancia relativa y la relacin entre factores geopolticos diversos.
La geopoltica puede ser una forma muy visual y global de mirar al mundo
Puede generar una visin simple y comprensible, ms popular, usando descripciones geogrficas, metforas y modelos Tambin puede generar una visin especfica o acomodada de la realidad, que
Ataque en Madrid
Cambi el Gobierno?
A fin de descubrir la realidad geopoltica es necesario mirar la ubicacin de los recursos (distribucin del poder) y las lneas de comunicacin que los unen
Truman en 1947
diferentes modos de vida
Reagan en 1982
el imperio del mal
Bush en 2002
el eje del mal
Congo, existe?
In 2009, people in the Congo may still be dying at a rate of an estimated 45,000 per month, and estimates of the number who have died from the long conflict
the fighting.
There have been frequent reports of weapon bearers killing civilians, destroying property, committing widespread sexual violence, causing hundreds of
Preguntas?