Bulgarian Geopolitics in a Balkan Context

Bulgarian Geopolitics in a Balkan Context

Imagining the Space of a Nation

Mihaylov, Valentin

Taylor & Francis Ltd

04/2024

262

Dura

Inglês

9781032538419

15 a 20 dias

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1. Introduction: geopolitical imaginations beyond greater state projects

2. Space, human territoriality, and nationalism in classical political geography and geopolitics: the physical space

Space and ethnonational communities

The incompatibility between ethnic, spatial, and political structures

Ethnic and historic territory

National(-istic) cartography

3. Critical political geography and geopolitics: the alternatives to the national(-istic) imaginations of space

National imaginations of space: between 'high' and 'low' geopolitics

How nations read and politicise the geographic space: an overview of the chief concepts of critical analysis

A conceptual model

4. The emergence and historic evolution of an imagined national space: the San-Stefano Bulgaria and its Balkan rivals

(Re)discovering historical and ethnic territory: 1762-1870

A Balkan's nation project for a greater state, as defined by external powers: 1870-1878

'We followed the principle "all or nothing", but nothing remained for us': 1878-1944

Freezing territorial aspirations and inconsistent internal geopolitics: 1944-1989

5. The focusing of current geopolitics: the spatial layers of an imagined national space

Possessed national space: internal geopolitics

The ethnogeopolitical neighbourhood of a nation: multifaceted geopolitics

Disaggregating external spaces of special geopolitical concern: the geopolitics of soft revisionism

Ancient and legendary spaces: emerging historical geopolitics

6. Long-term modelling of the historic development of the nation's space

The imagined continuity of Bulgarian statehood

The changing geopolitical priorities of the Third Bulgarian State

The long-term cognitive appropriation of an imagined national space

7. Conclusion
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political geography;geopolitics;post-positivist;Bulgarian geopolitical;geopolitical imaginations;geopolitical visions