Geopolitics as a conservative Weltanschauung-the clash of civilisations

Western globalism implies the spreading of universal values such as liberal democracy, market economy and the rule of law. In the 1990s, geopolitics has emerged as a conservative counter-ideology not only in Russia but even in the West. In a way, Samuel Huntington’s theory is a good case in point (see Huntington 1993), even if it supports in principle all the Western liberal-democratic values as such. Yet, rejecting universalism, this conception proclaims a geographically determined civilisational pluralism.