Geografía vs. Geopolítica
Abstract
“Geography vs. Geopolitics” is a milestone in internationalist thought. It was written at a critical moment in World War II and it is, both a timeless plea in favour of scientific rigor and democratic values and a conjectural attack on German Geopolitik, which, in the 1940s, was already considered as a key piece of the political and ideological machinery of Nazism. With that purpose, in his essay, Bowman dismantles all the bad scientific practices that would end up making Geopolitics fall into academic disgrace, especially in the Anglosphere, during the years after the end of the WWII. At the same time, he highlights the virtues of a “Scientific Geography” that, paradoxically, at the end of the 20th century, would end up being some intellectual benchmarks of the critical renaissance of geopolitical thought.
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