Kartografija šiuolaikinėje civilizacinėje vaizduotėje ir geopolitikoje
Cartography in Contemporary Civilizational Imagination and Geopolitics

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the “return” of cartography, map and geographical imagination to global geopolitics and the plane of interaction between the civilizations that increasingly determine it. The article discusses the rise of China, its new civilizational geopolitics, distinguishing between two types of cartography – the one related to the nation-state, its borders and security, and the outward-facing shifting map of civilizational connections and interactions. In the latter, the geopolitical and geoeconomic factor of the Road and Belt Initiative is important. Explaining the possible trajectories of geopolitical shifts, some aspects of the clash of Russian, Ottoman and Chinese civilizational cartography in Siberia, the Caucasus, and the Black Sea region are explored. Highlighting the destructiveness of Russian aggressive imperial geopolitics for Russia itself, conclusions are available about the likely creation of a bipolar world order between the United States and China, establishing a new world security architecture and helping to avoid new military conflicts.

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