West/Non-West: Funhouse Mirror of World Politics

... types like 1) pure Thalassocracy (British Empire) and 2) pure Tellurocracy (Mongolian Empire), most countries fall into the category of mixed types such as 3) Thalassocracy-leaning (the USA), 4) Tellurocracy-leaning (Russia) and 5) fluctuating between Thalassocracy and Tellurocracy (France during the Napoleonic Wars as a colonial empire). Such scholars of the Anglo-American school of geopolitics as А. Mahan, John Mackinder, and N. Spykman have provided a valid physical-geographical explanation of world political processes by means of the analysis of the characteristics typical of the maritime or continental position of the leading ...