West/Non-West: Funhouse Mirror of World Politics

... Post-Modernism to Neo-Modernism By the end of the twentieth century, the geopolitics was disappointed with the classical concepts involving the confrontation of Sea and Land powers, of the West and the East, the North and the South, the struggle for Hartland and Rimland etc., as each of which had at least two significant analytical constraints. First of all, those concepts explained only the relevant at that time international situation (for example, Rimland could help to understand the balance of power during the Cold War, but failed to explain the ...