In the wake of World War Two, geography as a profession began to retreat from the practice of geopolitics. This was a response of guilt - geographers such as German Karl Haushofer were complicit in the Nazi war machine, while Britisher Halford MacKinder was seen as an enabler of imperialism. Within a generation, geographers, especially in the West, ceased to practice classical geopolitics.

Geopolitics, of course, did not cease. Only, it was now practiced by people trained in disciplines other than geography. Geographers eventually took up the cause of "critical geopolitics," which deconstructed and critiqued the efforts of these classical geopolitics.

I believe it is time for geographers to reclaim the practice of classical geopolitics, and to bring geographical insights back into the equation. I, a recent recipient of a Master's degree in geography and a member in good standing of the Association of American Geographers, have begun building a body of work in this field, with a pair of publications and a pair of public presentations over the past six months. I will continue to build this discourse with both scholarly and popular publications. Additionally, I will use this blog to ruminate and comment on current events from a geographic perspective.

I think geography has unique contributions to make to the understanding of geopolitics, not simply as critics of the field, but as practitioners, and I hope this blog can be a central point of reference for those contributions.