{"id":602,"date":"2019-09-22T19:01:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T17:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.ostersjostiftelsen.se\/?post_type=project&#038;p=602"},"modified":"2019-09-22T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T17:01:07","slug":"continentalism-and-geopolitics-the-idea-of-big-space-political-formations-in-comparative-historical-perspective","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/dev.ostersjostiftelsen.se\/en\/project\/continentalism-and-geopolitics-the-idea-of-big-space-political-formations-in-comparative-historical-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Continentalism and Geopolitics: The Idea of \u2018Big-Space\u2019 Political Formations in Comparative Historical Perspective."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project examines the history and current relevance of continentalist ideas and their influence in national and international policymaking. For centuries, the \u201cdefault\u201d political form of the nation-state has been challenged by the idea of a supra-national, large-scale political entity. Continentalism is one category of big space thinking, based on a geographical teleology of political unification within the borders of a \u201ccontinent\u201d. In some cases, this teleology underlies a comprehensive geopolitical ideology of continentalism, which historically has drawn on the &#8220;big space&#8221; theories of F.Ratzel, C.Schmitt and H.Mackinder. Continentalism is used by political elites in order to consolidate a geopolitical identity and policy, larger than the national one, to influence processes of state formation and international integration. Continentalism can be associated both with hegemonic-authoritarian tendencies as well as democratic projects, and can inspire imperial expansionism as well as anti-colonial liberation movements. The project involves four case studies, which compare ideological iterations of continentalism in Europe, Russia-Eurasia, South America, and Asia. It is designed as a study in the history of political ideas, and draws on critical geopolitics as a methodological framework. This approach helps us to understand discursive fluidity the diversity of expressions that can be found in different forms of constructing \u2018continentalist\u2019 geographical visions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-602","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ostersjostiftelsen.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ostersjostiftelsen.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ostersjostiftelsen.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.ostersjostiftelsen.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}