International Quarterly of Foreign Relations

International Quarterly of Foreign Relations

The Geopolitics of Connectivity: A New Form of Power Competition in the 21st Century

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Hassan Noorali 1
Sahar Sadat Mousavi Nasab Rabori 2
1 Ph.D. student of Political Geography, Department of Political Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
2 Master's student, Department of Political Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
10.22034/fr.2024.382244.1342
Abstract
The concept of the geopolitical code was originally expressed by Gaddis (1982) in his analysis of post-war security policy in the United States. However, Taylor and Flint have been the main contributors to the development and strengthening of this idea in the geopolitical literature. Geopolitical code is defined as the operating code of a government’s foreign policy that evaluates places beyond its boundaries. ‘It is a set of strategic assumptions that a government makes about other states in forming its foreign policy. The geography of transportation is to study the geographical areas in which transportation is done and includes water-based and land-based strips as the main routes; furthermore, ports are the connection between these two geographical areas. Ports, as geoeconomic components, because they are at the heart of global trade, are clearly an issue in the geography of transportation. In such a way these effective components play an important role in the geography of transportation, in important and key crossings, shipping control points, and global corridors. In the twentieth century, the key role of geographical spaces in the competition of world powers had attracted the attention of geopolitical thinkers to transportation technology.
Keywords
Geopolitics of transportation
geopolitics of connection
geopolitics of ports
geopolitics codes
new silk roads

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