GEOPOLITICAL AXES IN IOANNIS MAZIS’S SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PROGRAMME

Ioannis E. KOTOULAS

Researcher in Geopolitics, Laboratory of Geocultural Analyses of Broader Middle East and Turkey, Faculty of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, University of Athens
ioanniskot@turkmas.gr

Abstract

Ioannis Mazis, Professor of Economic Geography and Geopolitics at the Faculty of Turkish Studies and Modern Asian Studies of the University of Athens, is the creator of Modern Systemic Geopolitical Analysis in international bibliography. The academic publications included in the volume Dissertationes academicae geopoliticae (Papazisi, Athens 2015) examine various aspects of International Relations. In this paper we examine the spatial geopolitical orientation of states/empires and the definition of main axes of geopolitical influence in Ioannis Mazis’s Scientific Research Programme, as this is manifested in his academic articles, published in English, French and Italian.

Keywords: Ioannis Mazis, geopolitical axis, Scientific Research Programme, Modern Systemic Geopolitical Analysis, vertical axis, rectilinear axis, power projection

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