A Case of Struggle between Land and Sea Powers: A Critical Geopolitcs Viewpoint

Abstract

In this article a brief analysis of the classical geopolitical theory of the confrontation of land and sea powers was described. Relations of center of the empire and its provinces was considered, economic and administrative trends have been simplistically divided into centripetal and centrifugal. There was also made a similar analysis for the aspirations of self-identification of people in both types of countries.