GEOPOLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CAUCASIAN-CASPIAN REGION

Igor DOBAEV, Alexander DUGIN

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Igor Dobaev, D.Sc. (Philos.), head, Sector of Geopolitics and Information Analysis, the Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)

Alexander Dugin, D.Sc. (Political Science), leader of the International Eurasian Movement Organization, chief research associate at the Southern Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)

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Geopolitics, the major theoretical propositions of which were formulated in detail in the 19th-20th centuries by its founding fathers (Ratzel, Kjellen, Mackinder, Mahan, Spykeman, Haushoffer, Schmitt, and others), is based on the fundamental dualism of Tellurocracy (Land) and Thalassocracy (Sea) as two opposing ontological and epistemological concepts.

“Land,” “Tellurocracy,” or “Supremacy on the Land” as a paradigmatic matrix of a wide variety of civilizations is associated with stable spaces and their quality orientations and descriptions realized in the domination of the whole over parts, conservatism, hierarchy, and strict legal norms which rule large human communities: clans, tribes, peoples, states, and empires. “Sea,” “Thalassocracy,” or “Supremacy on the Sea” is a civilizational type based on the domination of parts over the whole, individualism, liberalism, relative ethnic and legal norms, and the priority of nomadism and seafaring over the settled way of life. “Marine cultures” develop and change their external features easily while preserving the inner identity of their basic principles.

The larger part of human history has been unfolding under conditions of small-scale confrontation between the state-territorial units of both orientations. Whereby this dualism was concentrated along sea coasts and……………………

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