THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREAT GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN GEOPOLITICAL THOUGHT

UDC 338.2:004

  • Ostroga Victor Alexandrovich − DSc (History), Professor, Head of the Department of customs Affairs. Belarusian State University (4, Nezavisimosti Ave., 220030, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: ostroga.v@mail.ru

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2520-6885-2022-263-2-5-10

Keywords: history, geography, geographical determinism, sea power, climate, expansion, colonies, geopolitics, views, concept.

For citation: Ostroga V. А. The influence of the Great geographical discoveries on the development of european geopolitical thought. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 6, History, Philosophy, 2021, no. 2 (263), pp. 5–10 (In Belarusian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.52065/2520-6885-2022-263-2-5-10.

Abstract

The article examines the development of geopolitical views in Europe during the period of Great Geographical Discoveries. A detailed description of the essence of the era of Great Travel is given, the works of the most prominent and well-known European philosophers, geographers and historians, economists and lawyers in this field are analyzed and characterized, such as: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, Bartolomé de las Casas, Jean Bodin, Hugo Grotius, William Penn, Charles Louis de Montesquieu, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot. The connection of the geopolitical views and concepts of European thinkers with ancient geopolitical theories is revealed. The unexplored nature of the problem of the development of European geopolitical thought in belarusian historiography is noted. It is concluded that the geopolitical views of the thinkers of Europe subsequently became the foundation of the theories of the classics of geopolitical thought of the XIX–XX centuries and modernity.

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