Investigating the role of ports in theories of political geography / geopolitics and theorizing the "port power" concept

پژوهش ‎های جغرافیای سیاسی

Article 5, Volume 5, Issue 4 - Serial Number 20, December 2021, Pages 91-114   

Document Type: مقالات علمی -پژوهشی

DOI: Doi:org/10.22067/pg.v5i4.89374

Authors

Hassan noorali¹; Seyyed Abbas ahmadi^{* 2}

¹Master student of political geography, University of Tehran

²Asistante

Abstract

So far, various theories in the field of political geography and its complementary branch, geopolitics, have been proposed by world-thinking thinkers. Ports, which are considered as politico-spatial components of coastal countries with the role of gateway geoeconomics and geostrategic defense-military, have always been considered by these thinkers as the link between the two geographical areas of land and sea. However, they have not proposed a separate theory with the centrality of ports in the game of powers. Therefore, in this study, while examining the role of ports in theories of political geography and geopolitics, we have tried to introduce the theory of "port power" in contrast to the former land power and sea power. Therefore, these two topics constitute our main goal in this research. The present research is a kind of basic theoretical research and the information and raw materials of the analysis have been obtained by library method and by using scientific books and articles as well as authoritative or reference websites. The results of the research show that the global geopolitical order of the 21st century is moving from land power and seapower to port power, and in the future the country that controls ports will rule the world.

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