Without doubt, through sport a country can achieve fame and can compete in a fair manner with other countries. It’s maybe the only field in which countries compete with each other without a very big interference of politics. It’s a field where we don’t speak about big countries and small countries, in regular terms. For […]
Cultures vs. civilization
Every person interested in International Relations knows the best-seller “The clash o civilizations and the remaking of World Order” published by Samuel Huntington in 1996. Nowadays, when Ukraine has it’s own well known problems and when the emergence of the ISIS’s danger is on the agenda, many analysts think that Samuel Huntington was right and […]
7 Years since the solution over the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea
Seven years ago, on 3 February 2009, the International Court of Justice pronounced a solution in the case Romania vs. Ukraine over the delimitation of the maritime spaces of the two states in the Black Sea, alotting Romania nearly 79,43% of the disputed area. This means 9,700 square kilometers of the continental shelf and the exclusive economic […]
165th anniversary of the Europe’s last great romantic
Today, 15 January 2015, in Romania we celebrate 165th anniversary of Mihai Eminescu’s birth, the most representative Romanian poet, often regarded as “our national poet” by the Romanians. Even in the Republic of Moldova, Eminescu is regarded as a “national poet”, because the culture and history of this two neighbour states are very similar, almost […]
Is it incorrect to say that somebody is a geopolitician?
Even if my blog is called Geopoliticians.com, I wouldn’t say about me that I am a geopolitician. In my opinion it’s a big difference between a geopolitician and a specialist in geopolitics (geopolitical specialist). It is the same difference as between a politician and a political scientist. The politician is that person who influence the […]
One of the reasons why Eastern Europe doesn’t have higways is a geopolitical one
In Romania, lack of motorways is a subject debated and turned on all sides. The causes of this situation are multiple, and this short article does not intend to resume the whole debate and to analyze all causes. I’ll just stop at one, a geopolitical one. First I invite you to see the map of […]
The violation of the laws of geopolitics, one of the causes of the Soviet Union’s collapse
Like any other power, Russia is concerned about geopolitics. But, unlike its opponents, is frustrated and obsessed with its main geopolitical handicap: Russia is not a thalassocracy. In other words, is obsessed with the opposition thalassocracy-telurocracy. Thalassocracy is the rule of the sea, brilliantly embodied by the USA and the UK and has the advantage […]