Geostrategic theory is not new in the West. Some well-known western geostrategic doctrines and schools hold profound historical backgrounds and definite features of the age, play a role irreplaceable in the struggles ...Geostrategic theory is not new in the West. Some well-known western geostrategic doctrines and schools hold profound historical backgrounds and definite features of the age, play a role irreplaceable in the struggles of western nations to maintain expansion of nationalinterests and seek hegemony, and have exerted a far-reaching impact onthe development and change in the world strategic pattern. Since the endof the Cold War, the world strategic pattern has developed towards multipolarization and the world has seen the revival of geostrategic theory. Chi-na, as a large socialist country, has made unremitting efforts in promotinga new international order of peace and development and improving her peripheral security. In this essay, which also serves as the epilogue of On China's Geostrategy, the author applies the basic historical materialisttheories into his analyses of the basic roles of geostrategy, an outline ofdevelopment of human geostrategy and the main characteristics of the schools of展开更多
文摘Geostrategic theory is not new in the West. Some well-known western geostrategic doctrines and schools hold profound historical backgrounds and definite features of the age, play a role irreplaceable in the struggles of western nations to maintain expansion of nationalinterests and seek hegemony, and have exerted a far-reaching impact onthe development and change in the world strategic pattern. Since the endof the Cold War, the world strategic pattern has developed towards multipolarization and the world has seen the revival of geostrategic theory. Chi-na, as a large socialist country, has made unremitting efforts in promotinga new international order of peace and development and improving her peripheral security. In this essay, which also serves as the epilogue of On China's Geostrategy, the author applies the basic historical materialisttheories into his analyses of the basic roles of geostrategy, an outline ofdevelopment of human geostrategy and the main characteristics of the schools of
