Land bridge (geopolitics)
With land bridge mediating routes and between different regions and continents trade routes and corridors are designated.
history
The geopolitics formulated at the beginning of the 20th century tried, according to its own claim, to interpret the geographical location of countries and continents politically. This only became possible after the globe had been completely mapped around 1900. After the First World War, in Germany in particular, a large number of geopolitical proposals and drafts of reality were made, which did not differentiate between regions or nation-states but rather tried to link rival 'greater areas' or continents. Among other things, the Atlantropa project promoted the construction of a land bridge between Europe and Africa in the form of a gigantic dam near Gibraltar. In this context, geopolitical terms and ideas such as land bridge are more part of an aesthetic practice for generating world views than part of a scientific or ideological toolbox.
Examples
- The Silk Road is known and is still important to the present day .
- The New Eurasian Continental Bridge is a 10,870-kilometer rail link that connects Rotterdam in Europe with the east Chinese port city of Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hauke Ritz : The return of geopolitics, an ideology and its fatal consequences. In: Sheets for German and international politics. 3/2013. (online at: blaetter.de ) , accessed on November 27, 2016.
- ^ Andy Hahnemann : Textures of the Global. Geopolitics and Popular Literature in the Interwar Period. 1918-1939. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8253-5738-2 .