| ID | 119233 |
| Title Proper | What is to be done? Marx and Mackinder in Minsk |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Klinke, Ian |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article is prompted by recent calls for a 'Marxist geopolitics'. By exploring the case of contemporary Belarus, it argues that a Marxist geopolitics already (or rather still) exists in the world beyond the academic ivory tower. A dissection of foreign political discourse surrounding President Alexander Lukashenka over the last decade exposes two narratives that draw extensively from the repertoire of Soviet geopolitics. Whilst the first Marxist-Leninist storyline revives the early USSR's geopolitical position as a young state in the midst of a dystopian Western capitalism, the second one is familiar from the dying days of the Soviet empire and tells the story of a state that lies at the centre of a utopian common European house. The conclusion assesses the neo-Marxist concept of the 'anti-geopolitical', but finds it to have difficulties in accounting for the struggle of the Belarusian opposition. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 48, No.1; Mar 2013: p.122-142 |
| Journal Source | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 48, No.1; Mar 2013: p.122-142 |
| Key Words | Anti - Geopolitics ; Belarus ; Chronopolitics ; Critical Geopolitics ; Europe ; Marxist Geopolitics |