Reconsidering Geoeconomics as a constituent element of Geopolitics. An Analysis
In the scientific context as well as in the world of massified information, we hear a lot about geopolitics, a discipline in the sphere of political science and international relations that studies a plurality of themes, as Carlo Terracciano defined it:That branch of Anthropic Geography that analyses the relationship between Man and the earth, between Civilisation and Nature, between History and Geography, between peoples and their Lebensraum (Leben=Life; Raum=Space; Lage=Location), that is, the vital space necessary for the State Community, organically understood, to live, grow, develop, expand and prosper: creating well-being, Civilisation and Values for its members, living together on the same soil and united in a unitary community of destiny. Or, to put it in Luraghi's more technical terms: "Geopolitics is the doctrine that studies political phenomena in their spatial distribution and in their causes and environmental relations, also considered in their development". And again: 'Geopolitics is synthesis: a broad view in time and space of general phenomena linking the perception of geographical factors with states', and peoples.[
