Jannatkhan EYVAZOV

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Jannatkhan Eyvazov, Deputy Director, Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus, Executive Secretary of the Central Asia and the Caucasus Journal of Social and Political Studies (Baku, Azerbaijan).

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FROM THE TRADITIONAL TO POSTINDUSTRIAL STATE: GEOPOLITICS AND SECURITY IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA

ABSTRACT

How do geopolitical factors affect the conceptualization of the security sphere and how does the level of such influence differ from one type of state to another? The author holds that the development trend toward postindustrialism weakens the effect of geography-related factors on security. At the same time, a question is raised of how sustainable this trend is; an attempt is also made to retrace factors contributing to the restoration of dominant influence of geopolitics in the way security is perceived in the states of the globalizing world.

Introduction

Today, the international political system as a whole and the state as its component are living through changes that are normally comprehended in the context of globalization. These transformations have inevitably affected the concepts of security that are gaining ground in various societies, and the extent to which security is influenced by geopolitical factors. In classical interpretation, security and geopolitics are intertwined so closely that it is sometimes hard to………….

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