Critical Geopolitics Geography Geopolitics Discourse Foreign policy Political geography Lebensraum Geostrategy Realpolitik Theocracy Critical geopolitics refers to a body of radical scholarship that emerged in the early 1990s and bridges the academic disciplines of Geography and International Relations. Setting itself in opposition to 'classical' Geopolitics, it conceptualizes geopolitics as a complex and problematic set of discourses, representations and practices, rather th... more »an as a coherent, neutral and objectivist science.Critical Geopolitics sees the geopolitical as comprising four linked facets: popular geopolitics, formal geopolitics, structural geopolitics, and practical geopolitics. Critical Geopolitical scholarship continues to engage critically with questions surrounding geopolitical discourses, geopolitical practice (i.e. foreign policy), and the history of Geopolitics.« less