Conference paper
DECONSTRUCTION OF GEOPOLITICAL ORDER ON THE EXAMPLE OF PSEUDOSTATES
Vlatko Cvrtila
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The end of the “cold war” brought about the emergence of geopolitics which has not been to such an extent burdened with the former international geopolitical views. One of the most significant shifts has been the recognition that geopolitical events cannot be limited to national states and their borders. Of course, states are still central for the world’s geopolitical map, but no longer as the sole factors in the global geopolitical system. On the one hand and under the influence of globalization, new conditions have arisen, influenced by geopolitical factors; on the other, new entities are emerging whose influence is very similar to that of the central factors – contemporary states. These similarities are primarily reflected in the claims of sovereign control over a certain territory, the organization of government on it, the shaping of a particular national identity by the majority population, and so on. It is these new territorial and political units that contribute to the deconstruction of the geopolitical order; the disintegration of the Soviet Union is the best illustration.
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27140
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Publication date:
28.7.2000.
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