Position of the Serbian Lands in the Global Geopolitical Concepts – Contribution to Understanding the Historical Fate of the Serbs in the 20th and 21st Century
Position of the Serbian Lands in the Global Geopolitical Concepts – Contribution to Understanding the Historical Fate of the Serbs in the 20th and 21st Century

Author(s): Nebojša Vuković, Mirčeta Vemić
Subject(s): Applied Geography, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Geopolitics
Published by: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije
Keywords: geopolitics; geo-strategy; Serbian lands; Eurasia;
Summary/Abstract: This paper presents and analyzes the global geopolitical concepts of the 20th century distinguished scholars – geographers, geo-strategists and political scientists – A. Mahan, H. Mackinder, N. Spykman, J. Fairgrieve, S. Huntington, Z. Brzezinski, A. Dugin, and political-geographical and cultural-geographical position of the Serbian lands in those concepts. The aim is to demonstrate that many military and political challenges that the Serbian people faced in the past and the present century were primarily conditioned by the political-geographical and geo-strategic factors – the general geographic location of the Serbian lands, position relative to their neighbours and major powers and their geopolitical interests and concepts. In other words, this paper re-affirms the importance of political geography in the interpretation of important events in the past and present of the Serbian people.

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