Basics of geopolitics

Foundations of Geopolitics: The geopolitical future of Russia ( Russian : Основы геополитики (геополитическое будущее России)) is a book of nationalist or national-Bolshevik Russian politician and political scientist Alexander Dugin in 1997. Dugin developed in the geopolitical theories Halford Mackinder and Karl Haushofer continued and describes approaches to push back the influence of the United States and to develop Russia as a great empire into a world power .

The work has been widely received at the Russian state level and is used as a textbook at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and other military academies. As of 2016, the fourth Russian edition is out of print.

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For Dugin, an initiator of the Russian New Right and advocate of neo-Eurasism , the goal of Russian foreign policy should be to end the cultural and military dominance of the USA. For this purpose, he describes corresponding targets for different countries and regions.

• Germany is to be integrated into a Berlin-Moscow axis . Here Germany is to be granted dominance in the Catholic and Protestant countries of Central and Eastern Europe . As a “reward” for cooperation, Germany should also get the Kaliningrad Oblast back.
• France is to be integrated into a Franco-German bloc and the anti-Atlantic currents are to be supported.
• The United Kingdom is to be isolated from the rest of Europe.
• The US is to be destabilized with the help of the Russian secret services , for example by fueling ethnic, social and religious tensions.
• Anti-Americanism is to be strengthened in Japan . As a thank you for a "cooperation", Japan should receive the Kuril Islands .
• Dugin proposes the establishment of a buffer state from Chinese and Mongolian territories to China. In return, Russia should help China to gain dominance in Southeast Asia .
• Russia and the Islamic world share "traditional values", so Iran should be closely linked to Russia.
• Poland , Lithuania and Latvia are to be assigned to the Russian sphere of influence and given a special political status.
• Belarus , Georgia , Ukraine , and Moldova are to be considered part of Russia. Finland should also be absorbed in Russia. The Mongolia should be part of a larger "Eurasia-Russia".
• The Christian Orthodox countries of Europe such as Greece , Romania and Serbia are seen as part of a new third Rome and are to be annexed to Russia.

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1. ↑ Casey Michael: Black Wind, White Snow: Imagining Eurasia thediplomat.com, September 15, 2016.
2. ↑ Charles Clover: The Unlikely Origins of Russia's Manifest Destiny Foreign Policy, July 27, 2016.
3. ^ John B. Dunlop ( Hoover Institution ): Aleksandr Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics Book Review, www.4pt.su.