Geopolitics and discourse: Practical geopolitical reasoning in American foreign policy
Geopolitics and discourse: Practical geopolitical reasoning in American foreign policy
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DOI：
10.1016/0962-6298(92)90048-x
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发表时间：
1992-03
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
Gearóid Ó. Tuathail;J. Agnew
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作者：
Gearóid Ó. Tuathail;J. Agnew
本文主张用话语的概念重新定义地缘政治学。地缘政治学被定义为一种话语实践，通过这种实践，具有治国才能的知识分子将国际政治“空间化”，并将其表现为一个以特定类型的地方、民族和戏剧为特征的“世界”。四个论文阐述了这种重新概念化的概述，包括“正式”和“实用”地缘政治之间的区别。这些论点说明了在美国外交政策，其中包括乔治凯南的“长电报”和“X先生”的文章代表苏联的分析实用地缘政治推理的一般性讨论。具有讽刺意味的是，这种对地方的实际地缘政治表述，使人们不得不放弃关于地方作为社会实体的多样性和复杂性的真正地理知识。具有讽刺意味的是，地缘政治的推理是反地理的。
This paper argues for the re-conceptualization of geopolitics using the concept of discourse. Geopolitics is defined as a discursive practice by which intellectuals of statecraft ‘spatialize’ international politics and represent it as a ‘world’ characterized by particular types of places, peoples and dramas. Four theses explicating this re-conceptualization are outlined including the distinction between ‘formal’ and ‘practical’ geopolitics. These arguments are illustrated by a general discussion of practical geopolitical reasoning in US foreign policy which includes an analysis of George Kennan's ‘Long Telegram’ and ‘Mr X’ article representations of the USSR. The irony of such practical geopolitical representations of place is that they necessitate the abrogation of genuine geographical knowledge about the diversity and complexity of places as social entities. Geopolitical reasoning, it is concluded, ironically works by being anti-geographical.