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Geopolitical thinking can be traced back to figures such as Aristotle, Strabo, Bodin, Montesquieu, Kant, and Hegel. Nineteenth-century precursors include Humboldt, Guyot, Buckle, and Ritter. However, the founders of modern geopolitics were Ratzel, Mackinder, Kjellen, Bowman, and Mahan, whose writings reflected their era of intense nationalism, state expansionism, and overseas empire building. The principles and laws developed by these leading theoreticians reflected their national perspectives and experiences, as well as the influence of social Darwinism. Modern geopolitics has developed through five stages: the race for imperial hegemony; German geopolitik; American geopolitics; Cold War state-centered versus universalistic geography; and the post-Cold War period. The aim of this study is to introduce and explore the stages of modern geopolitics.

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Geopolitics Hegemony Cold War geopolitics Imperialism shutter belt

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Basharpal, M. F. . (2025). Stages of Modern Geopolitics. Journal of Natural Sciences – Kabul University, 5(1), 83–91. https://doi.org/10.62810/jns.v5i1.264

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