West/Non-West: Funhouse Mirror of World Politics

... 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 ... ... the pivotal part of the planet had shifted from Central Asia to the Middle East where Europe, Asia, and Africa come together. Orientalism and Occidentalism As can be seen, the re-emerging West/non-West opposition represents nothing more than a revival ...