Progress in international geopolitical research from 1996 to 2015

doi:10.1007/s11442-016-1389-1

	Progress in international geopolitical research from 1996 to 2015
	Song, Tao 1,2; Lu, Dadao 1,2; Liang, Yi 1,3; Wang, Qian 1,3; Lin, Jing 1,3
刊名	JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES
	2017-04-01
卷号	27 期号:4 页码:497-512
关键词	geopolitics discipline development scientometrics international research progress
ISSN号	1009-637X
DOI	10.1007/s11442-016-1389-1
通讯作者	Song, Tao(songtao@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	Focusing on international relations from the perspective of geography, geopolitics exerts powerful influences on the course of economic and political development in the world. In the tide of globalization and information technology, geopolitics has become an important subject for global pattern interpretation and policy making. It is essentially important to have a scientific and systematic review on international geopolitics to promote its development. Based on the bibliometric statistics, the paper reviews the research development of geopolitics on the Web of Science from 1996 to 2015. The history, journals, papers and key research areas of geopolitics have been revealed in the paper. By the analysis of bibliometric statistics, the number of papers recently published in the journals of political geography and related geography journals continues to increase. The key areas of geopolitical papers which are globally highly cited include geopolitical interpretation of the countries and borders, critical geopolitics, emotional geopolitics, feminist geopolitics and other topics. Before the year of 2000, the state and borders were hot topics of the geopolitical research. Yet since 2000, it has been the trend that the geopolitics is increasingly set in the context of geographical implications. At the same time, critical geopolitics appears to be the main area of geopolitical research, especially transitioning from traditional geopolitics towards the humanism-embeddedness (such as emotional geopolitics, feminist geopolitics). The paper then systematically reviews the branch trends of geopolitical research, including the borders and the territory, global geo-culture and geo-economics, Chinese models of geopolitics, resource conflicts and ecological politics, as well as emotional geopolitics. Finally, it puts forward the implication that Chinese geopolitical studies should reinforce the importance of geographical space and scale, use the process of description and multiple methods, as well as integrate humanistic thoughts, in order to further enrich the theories and practices of geopolitical research.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41530634] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41530751]
WOS关键词	POLITICAL-GEOGRAPHY ; FEMINIST GEOPOLITICS ; SOUTHEAST-ASIA ; CENTRAL-EUROPE ; HONG-KONG ; BOUNDARY ; BORDER ; CHINA ; WATER ; CARTOGRAPHY
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography
语种	英语
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000392106700007
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/65146]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Song, Tao
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resource Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Collaborat Innovat Ctr Geog Environm & Frontier D, Kunming 650500, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Song, Tao,Lu, Dadao,Liang, Yi,et al. Progress in international geopolitical research from 1996 to 2015[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,2017,27(4):497-512.
APA	Song, Tao,Lu, Dadao,Liang, Yi,Wang, Qian,&Lin, Jing.(2017).Progress in international geopolitical research from 1996 to 2015.JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,27(4),497-512.
MLA	Song, Tao,et al."Progress in international geopolitical research from 1996 to 2015".JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES 27.4(2017):497-512.