De politieke aardrijkskunde na de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Abstract
The author treats political geography, together with geopolitics. He establishes that the confusion of terminology and field is still enduring. Nevertheless, recently geopolitics was the object of many attacks, some against German geopolitics, others against the conception of geopolitics itself and, at the same time, from marxian side, also against political geography. Physical deterministic geopolitics is commonly condemned. A school of geopoliticians does no longer exist however, occasionally geopolitical works are pub'ished and here and there geopolitical conceptions are occurring. The “Zeitschrift für Geopolitik” and the conception of geopolitics, recognized in it, can not be considered as a continuation of the prewar geopolitics; for this conception, the denomination geopolitics does not even fit any longer. Political geography seems to split into two directions: a more geographical one, (counting theoretical advocates and votaries, especially in Germany) directing political geography more and more towards the “Kulturlandschaftsgeographie” and a more political one, which still emphasizes as much, if not more, the influence of environment on the political forms of life, as the influence of the political structures and events on the cultural landscape.
How to Cite:
De Smet, L., (1959) “De politieke aardrijkskunde na de Tweede Wereldoorlog”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen 4(4), 352–364. doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95586
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