Dialogue and UniversalismE Volume 5, Number 3/2014 Methodological Challenges toward Constructing a Geopolitical Model By

Despite its usage in the media, and occasionally within academic writings, the term, “geopolitics,” normally is denigrated for its past associations with disreputable and discredited theories and ideologies. In only the rarest of instances has the term been raised to respectability and utility, although recently, geopolitics has gained some ground toward a modest legitimacy. The ambition of this article is to restore the concept to a higher respectability by constructing a classical geopolitical model that may clarify its approach and show its utility.