Twenty-five years of progress in geopolitics research： Efforts from China＇s geographers

作     者：DU Debin DUAN Dezhong LIU Chengliang MA Yahua 

作者机构：School of Urban and Regional Science East China Normal University Shanghai 200062 China Institute for Innovation and Strategic Studies East China Normal University Shanghai 20062 China School of Business Shanghai Normal University Shanghai 200235 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Geographical Sciences》 (地理学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第26卷第8期

页      面：1223-1242页

核心收录：

学科分类：030207[法学-国际关系] 03[法学] 0302[法学-政治学] 06[历史学] 060207[历史学-专门史] 0602[历史学-中国史] 

基　　金：National Natural Science Foundation of China No.41471108 No.41501141 No.41571123 

主　　题：geopolitics geo strategy world geography China research progress 

摘      要：The world is currently undergoing profound changes, with a shift in global power centers and reordering of international power spaces, assigning new theoretical tasks as well as providing new opportunities for geopolitics research in China. Despite the peripheral nature of geopolitics research within their discipline, geographers have played a fundamental role in its origins and revival, from classical geopolitics（i.e., the German school of geopolitics and the Anglo-American school of geo-strategy）, to internal geopolitics（i.e., electoral geography and administrative geography）, to the new geopolitics（i.e., formal geopolitics）, and to recent critical geopolitics（i.e., popular geopolitics）. Although only few of these researchers were from China, great strides have been made in geopolitics and political geography research in China, with useful results being obtained. After demonstrating the importance of geopolitics research for the rising China, this review provides an overview of geopolitics papers led by China＇s geographers in the past few decades, describing their achievements, the problems they have faced, and the directions they have taken. Twenty-five years of geopolitics have produced a range of accomplishments, with a growth in the quality and size of research groups and institutions, an expanding literature, and some geo-strategic breakthroughs. Obviously, geographers have successfully reclaimed geopolitics, but some crucial topics are still absent or weak in the geopolitical research agenda, and need to be pursued vigorously. Most of the attention, from a positivistic perspective, has been paid to reflecting Western geopolitical thoughts, describing patterns of international power relations, and offering foreign policy advice（in a problem-focused orientation）, rather than determining mechanisms and performing theoretical analyses（in a theoretical orientation）, resulting in a lack of independent value judgments and of a theoretical basis for the subject. Mor