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- Title
An Ottoman Statesman's Geopolitical Approach to the Balance of PowerPolicy in Europe in the 19<sup>th</sup> Century.
- Authors
Korkmaz, Kürşat
- Abstract
Geopolitics is defined as the political interpretation of geography and its presentation under a scientific discipline. Geography has had an impact on human actions and developments since the early ages. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, works on geography and politics gained intensity. Since the twentieth century, important conceptual and theoretical works have been written at the point of being a geopolitical discipline. The main arguments of the works put forward have been the power struggle between sea and land power. The struggle between sea and land power started with the emergence of states and has continued until today. It was Alfred Mahan, the theorist, who emphasized the importance of the seas in the discipline of geopolitics and put forward this conceptually with the "sea dominance approach". It was Halford Mackinder who put forward the "land dominance approach" by emphasizing land power in the face of the importance of the seas. As the main starting point in these approaches, the means of being the global power of the period and how this will be achieved are stated. These views emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. About 70 years before these two approaches, the Ottoman Empire. The important statesman of the II Mahmut period, Ahmet Fethi Pasha, in a report he sent to Istanbul, the capital of the Empire, during his duty as ambassador to Vienna in 1836 (in the script); had included the concepts of sea power and land power. In this report, England and France were determined as the sea power, and the opposite of these powers, Russia as the land power.
- Subjects
EUROPE; GEOPOLITICS; BALANCE of power; OTTOMAN Empire; PASHA, Ahmet
- Publication
Turkish Studies - Economics, Finance, Politics, 2023, Vol 18, Issue 3, p1009
- ISSN
2667-5625
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7827/TurkishStudies.67781