Strategic geography is concerned with the control of, or access to, spatial areas that affect the
security
Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, or any other entity or ...
and prosperity of
nation
A nation is a type of social organization where a collective Identity (social science), identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, t ...
s. Spatial areas that concern strategic geography change with human needs and development. This field is a subset of
human geography
Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...
, itself a subset of the more general study of
geography
Geography (from Ancient Greek ; combining 'Earth' and 'write', literally 'Earth writing') is the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. Geography is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an understanding o ...
. It is also related to
geostrategy
Geostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning. As with all strategies, geostrategy is concerned with matching me ...
.
Strategic geography is that branch of science, which deals with the study of spatial areas that affect the security and prosperity of a nation.
See also
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Geostrategy
Geostrategy, a subfield of geopolitics, is a type of foreign policy guided principally by geographical factors as they inform, constrain, or affect political and military planning. As with all strategies, geostrategy is concerned with matching me ...
Further reading
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Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives.'' New York: Basic Books, 1997.
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Daclon, Corrado Maria. ''Geopolitics of Environment, A Wider Approach to the Global Challenges.'' Italy: Comunità Internazionale,
SIOI, 2007.
* Faringdon, Hugh. ''Strategic Geography: NATO, the Warsaw Pact, and the Superpowers''. Routledge (1989). .
*Gray, Colin S. and Geoffrey Sloan. ''Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy.'' Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1999.
*Kemp G., Harkavy R. ''Strategic Geography and the changing Middle East''.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., with operations in Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East, as well as the United States. Foun ...
in cooperation with
Brookings Institution Press
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econ ...
, 1997.
*
Mackinder, Halford J.''Democratic Ideals and Reality.'' Washington, DC:
National Defense University Press
The National Defense University (NDU) is an institution of higher education in Fort Lesley McNair, Washington, D.C., United States. It is funded by the United States Department of Defense aimed at facilitating high-level education, training, ...
, 1996.
*
Stürmer, Michael. ''Strategische Geografie''. Leitartikel, ''
Die Welt
(, ) is a German national daily newspaper, published as a broadsheet by Axel Springer SE.
is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group and it is considered a newspaper of record in Germany. Its leading competitors are the ...
'' Online, 10. February 2004.
External links
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Geopolitics
Human geography
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