West/Non-West: Funhouse Mirror of World Politics

... Thalassocracy (British Empire) and 2) pure Tellurocracy (Mongolian Empire), most countries fall into the category of mixed types such as 3) Thalassocracy-leaning (the USA), 4) Tellurocracy-leaning (Russia) and 5) fluctuating between Thalassocracy and Tellurocracy (France during the Napoleonic Wars as a colonial empire). Such scholars of the Anglo-American school of geopolitics as А. Mahan, John Mackinder, and N. Spykman have provided a valid physical-geographical explanation of world political processes by means of the analysis of the characteristics typical of the maritime or continental position of the leading ...