A Little Geopolitics Is a Dangerous Thing
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/geopolitics-dangerous-term-for-a-globalized-world-by-harold-james-2021-06
Historian Harold James observes:
A classically ambiguous concept, geopolitics has both innocent and perilous uses. For some, it promotes a vague sense of geographical contingency. For others, however, it amounts to geographical determinism, implying an endless conflict in which space matters more than ideas, maps more than chaps. The term’s danger lies in its inherent nihilism: it leads us to assume that no one can be seriously interested in values, because there can be no universal good.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/geopolitics-dangerous-term-for-a-globalized-world-by-harold-james-2021-06
Historian Harold James observes:
A classically ambiguous concept, geopolitics has both innocent and perilous uses. For some, it promotes a vague sense of geographical contingency. For others, however, it amounts to geographical determinism, implying an endless conflict in which space matters more than ideas, maps more than chaps. The term’s danger lies in its inherent nihilism: it leads us to assume that no one can be seriously interested in values, because there can be no universal good.