CONFLICTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CRITICAL GEOPOLITICS

Abstract

The article gives the conflictological analysis of the main theoretical theses of critical geopolitics. The undertaken analysis helped to state that critical geopolitics considers the following factors to be the most defining and contributing to the rise of geopolitical conflicts certain conflictogenic geopolitical perceptions and ideas shaping the course and the character of foreign policy. Geopoltical conflict itself being a phenomenon of global policy is considered as a result of constructing in public mind some geopolitical ideas about strategic importance of certain territories and regions or possible threats to national security.