Foundations of Geopolitics

The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia
Author Alexander Dugin
Original title Основы геополитики (геополитическое будущее России) / Osnovy geopolitiki: Geopoliticheskoe budushchee Rossii
Country Russia
Language Russian
Publication date
1997

The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia is a geopolitical book by Alexander Dugin. The book has had a large influence within the Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites[1] and was allegedly used as a textbook in the General Staff Academy of Russian military.[1]

Use

The book was co-authored by General Nikolai Klokotov of the General Staff Academy.[1] Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, head of the International Department of the Russian Ministry of Defence, apparently advised in the project.[1] Klokotov stated that in the future the book would "serve as a mighty ideological foundation for preparing a new military command."

Dugin has asserted that the book has been adopted as a textbook in many Russian educational institutions.[1]

Content

The book declares that "the battle for the world rule of [ethnic] Russians" has not ended and Russia remains "the staging area of a new anti-bourgeois, anti-American revolution." The Eurasian Empire will be constructed "on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us."[1]

Military operations play relatively little role. The textbook believes in a sophisticated program of subversion, destabilization, and disinformation spearheaded by the Russian special services. The operations should be assisted by a tough, hard-headed utilization of Russia's gas, oil, and natural resources to bully and pressure other countries.[1]

The book states that "the maximum task [of the future] is the 'Finlandization' of all of Europe".[1]

In Europe:

In the Middle East and Central Asia:

In Asia:

The book emphasizes that Russia must spread Anti-Americanism everywhere: "the main 'scapegoat' will be precisely the U.S."

In the United States:

The Eurasian Project could be expanded to South and Central America.[1]

Reviews

Hoover Institution senior fellow John B. Dunlop stated that "the impact of this intended 'Eurasianist' textbook on key Russian elites testifies to the worrisome rise of fascist ideas and sentiments during the late Yeltsin and the Putin period."[2]

An essay in The New York Review of Books said that Foundations of Geopolitics is influenced by the work of Carl Schmitt, a proponent of a conservative international order whose work influenced the Nazis.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 John B. Dunlop. "Review: Aleksandr Dugin’s Foundations of Geopolitics".
  2. 1 2 Dunlop, John B. (July 30, 2004). "Russia's New—and Frightening—Ism". Hoover Digest (Leland Stanford Junior University) (3). Retrieved April 2014.
  3. Snyder, Timothy (20 March 2014). "Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 5 September 2014.

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