Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Faculty of Social Sciences |
2010
Abstract
The article provides a critique of geopolitical discourses of geopolitics' fathers - Karl Haushofer and Nicholas Spykman. It does so through the means of critical geopolitics; it is not interested in their work's logical coherence.
Rather, it focuses on its normative outcomes and the relation to power. The study tries to answer the questions of who, what, how, why and what for.
The outcome is a finding, that both authors were deeply rooted in the power surroundings of their states, to which they dedicated their geopolitical analyses. Their discourses differ in how they are able to morally legitimize their politics.