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| Titel: |
Geography and grand strategy |
| Auteur: |
Gray, Colin S. |
| Verschenen in: |
Comparative strategy |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 10 (1991) nr. 4 pagina's 311-329 |
| Jaar: |
1991-10 |
| Inhoud: |
Geography is the most basic and enduring of the influences upon state policy, both as limitation and as opportunity. National strategic culture is very much the product of geographical conditioning. Many polities have a plainly maritime or continentalist orientation in their strategic worldviews. In different periods of history, either maritime or continental power would seem to have enjoyed systemic advantage. Notwithstanding the appearance of nuclear weapons which, in the view of many people, appeared to imply a much reduced relevance to traditional spatial relationships among states, the maritime-continental dimension to the cold war was virtually archetypal. As nuclear weapons came to have most of their value negated by the workings of mutual deterrence, so long familiar geographical factors in strategy assumed ever more salience. All conflicts are shaped and conditioned by their geographical referents. The past 20 years has seen the beginning of renewed respect being paid by scholars to the importance of geography for statecraft and strategy. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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