Europe Between Political Geography and Geopolitics II

MEMORIE DELLA SOCIETÀ GEOGRAFICA ITALIANA VOLUME LXIII

A 345289 On the Centenary of Ratzel's Politische Géographie Europe Between Political Geography and Geopolitics Proceedings of the international meeting organised by the Geographical Section of the Department of Political Sciences (University of Trieste) and the International Geographical Union - World Political Map (Trieste, Italy, Wednesday 10th - Saturday 13* December, 1997)

edited by MARCO ANTONSICH VLADIMIR KOLOSSOV M. PAOLA PAGNINI

SOCIETA CEOCRAFiOV ITA11ANA Roma - 2001 CONTENTS

PRÉFACE XV

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XIX

HONORARY DEGREE TO Prof. Paul Claval Motivation de l'attribution de la laurea honoris causa 1 Laudatio (Prof. M. Paola Pagnini) 3 "Géographie et Politique", honorary lecture by Prof. Paul Claval 5

PARTI FRIEDRICH RATZEL: LIFE, WORK AND LEGACY

1.1 Considérations on Ratzel's Context and Theory

M. PAOLA PAGNINI Theory and Praxis: from Anthropogeography to Political Geography 19

CALOGERO MUSCARÀ Ratzel's Politische Géographie and Anthropogeographie in the Perspective of the Geographical "Possibilism" of Lucien Febvre 29

- V - FRANCO FARINELLI Friedrich Ratzel and the Nature of (Political) Geography 33

BERNHARD STRECK Diffusionism and Geopolitics in the Work of Friedrich Ratzel 51

FABRIZIO EVA Back to the Future. Reclus versus Ratzel: from State Geopolitics to Human Geopolitics 67

LUCA MUSCARÀ Understanding Ratzel and the Challenge of Complexity 79

INGRID HÔNSCH Friedrich Ratzel's Collected Papers in the Archive for Geography in Leipzig 93

1.2 Ratzel's influence on National Geographies

GEOFFREY PARKER Ratzel, the French School and the Birth of Alternative Geopolitics 101

GERTJAN DIJKINK Ratzel's Politische Géographie and Ninenteenth Century German Discourse 115

ZOLTAN HAJDÛ The Influence of Friedrich Ratzel on Hungarian Geography 129

FRANCESCO MICELLI, SERGIO ZILLI Ratzel et l'école géographique frioulane 145

KLAUS KOST Antisemitism in German Geography 1900-1945 151

MAURIZIO SCAINI The Influence of Ratzel on the American Historical Tradition School 167

- VI - HERNÂN SANTIS-ARENAS Ratzel's Thought in Chilean Geopolitics 183

MÔNICA GANGAS-GEISSE Ratzel's Thought in Chilean Geography 193

YASUO MIYAKAWA The Evolution of the Political Geography of Japan in the Perspective of Ratzel and Gottmann: The Mutation of the Pacific Maritime Corridor and the Metamorphosis of the World Megalopolis 203

PART 2 CONTEMPORARY RE-CONFIGURATION OF POWER, SPACE, AND GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE

2.1 Re-thinking Geographical Knowledge

JOHN AGNEW The "View from Nowhere" and the Modem Geopolitical Imagination 229

MATTEO STOCCHETTI Space in their Minds: Spatial Knowledge and Political Behaviour. A Critique of the Spatial Theory of Political Behaviour 243

ANTONIO PALMISANO What about Geopolitics of Utopia? 263

THOMAS LUNDEN The Domain in Time Geography. A Focus on Political Geography? 269

CLAUDIO MINCA The Crisis of the Project: Development Models and Postmodem Ontologies 279

GIACOMO CORNA PELLEGRINI The Indissoluble Tie between Geopolitics and Cultural Geography 291

- VII - 2.2 Re-Mapping Boundaries and Identifies

DAVID NEWMAN, ANSSI PAASI Rethinking Boundaries in Political Geography 301

VLADIMIR KOLOSSOV Borders and Identities. The post-Soviet Space: the Case of Russia and Ukraine 317

MILAN BUFON From Geopolitics to Political Geography: the new European Challenge 335

ALESSANDRO GALLO Boundary Grids and Networked Systems 347

GYULA BORA The Political Geography of Transboundary Pollutions 359

GUIDO LUCARNO Historical Inheritance and Border Problems in the Provençal Brigasque Area (Maritime Alps) 367

KRYSTIAN HEFFNER Polish-Czech Régions: From Political Séparation to Co-operation on the Way to the European Union 391

2.3 Geostrategy, Geoeconomics and Global Security: Between Praxis and Theory

SIMON DALBY Danger, Disease and the Dark Continent: Geopolitics and "Global" Security 403

TESFAYE SHIFERAW, TESFAYE TAFESSE Hydropolitics of the Nile Valley: Retrospect and Prospect 415

CARLO JEAN, SAVINO ONELLI Military Geography and Geostrategy in the XXI" Century Europe 429

- VIII - GlANFRANCO BATTISTI The Gulf Wars. A Geopolitical Interprétation 447

JAN NIJMAN Madeleine Albright and the Déniai of Geopolitics 461

STANLEY D. BRUNN The Worldviews of United Nations Members. Key Words in 50* Anniversary (1995) Speeches 473

FRANCESCO ADAMO Geopolitics and Geoeconomics: from Colonialism to Globalism 487

ANDRÉA FAVRETTO Business Cycles as a Key to Understanding International Relations at the End of the Millennium 513

PART 3 GEOPOLITICS OF EUROPE: ICONOGRAPHIES, VISIONS, THÉORIES AND PRACTICES

3.1 Europe between Nation-states and Régions

GlANFRANCO LlZZA Europe between Crisis of the Nation-State and Processes of Political and Economie Intégration 527

EDOARDO BORIA Processes of Homologation of the Choice of Vote in a Transnational European Area 551

FRANCESCA KRASNA The Nation-State: Towards a New Springtime? 565

- IX - JERNEJ ZUPANCIC Régions instead of Nations? The Political Geography of the Transformation of Nation-States in Europe 575

ALBERTO CAPACCI The Geographers and the Idea of Europe 585

LORENZO BAGNOLI L'extension de l'Europe selon les organizations internationales européennes 595

3.2 Emerging Geopolitical Identifies in Central and Eastern Europe

JOHN O'LOUGHLIN Geopolitical Visions of Central Europe 607

MAREK BARWINSKI The Ethnie Identity and Religious Structure of Lemkos within the "Lemkos' Lands" 629

MAREK SOBCZYNSKI The Ethnie and Religious Structure of Poland 639

JAN WENDT The Geopolitical Aspects of Transit in Central Europe 651

ISTVÂN SÛLI-ZAKAR, KLÂRA CZMIRE The Political Geography and Geopolitical Rôle of the Carpathian Région 659

TOMASZ ZARYCKI Rediscovery of Environmental Influences on the Political Map. The Case of Polish Electoral Geography 673

VASILE PU§CA§ The New Political Geography of Post-Madrid Central Europe 687

- X - VASILE CUCU, TEODOR SIMION La Roumanie. Des coordonnées géopolitiques contemporaines 697

3.3 Geopolitical visions from the Mediterranean

MARCO ANTONSICH "Albania" as a Product of Italy's Geopolitical Discourse 717

LUIGI VlTTORIO FERRARIS Perceptions and Représentation in Italian Foreign Policy 739

GlUSEPPE CAMPIONE The Mediterranean, Europe... and Sicily 753

MARIA PARADISO Alternative Geopolitics: Actors, Policymakers, Régional Interactions from an European "Meridionalistic" Perspective 761

TERESA AMODIO North-South Coopération: the Euro Mediterranean Partnership 775

STEFANO BRUNELLI Gibraltar. A Geopolitical Vision 787

3.4 Geo-graphing the Balkans

GEARÔID Ô TUATHAIL The Bosnian War and the American Securing of "Europe" 797

MARK W. CORSON, JULIAN V. MINGHI Instant Analysis in Political Geography: Prédiction and the Test ofTime 813

DRAGAN UMEK New Territorial Entities in the Balkan Peninsula: the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina 829

- XI - ELENA DELL'AGNESE Edith Durham's High Albania: a Glimpse into Balkanian Geopolitics 839

MLADEN KLEMENCIC Croatian National Identity 851

3.5 Geopolitics of Russia: Past, Présent, Future

ANNE DE TINGUY Acteurs non-étatiques de la vie internationale de la Russie: relais ou concurrents? 863

ALDO FERRARI Eurasianism: A Russian Approach to Geopolitics 879

MIKHAÏL P. KRYLOV The Civilisational Breaks in the Post-Soviet Space: Westernization and Cultural Identity 889

VALERIAN SNYTKO, ALEXANDER BUYANTUYEV, A.R. BATUEV Geopolitical situation of the area east of Lake Baikal 895

IGORJELEN Eastern European Frontier: a Case Study 901

FABRIZIO VIELMINI L'Asie centrale: object privilégié de l'analyse géopolitique 909

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