ABSTRACT
Geopolitics is the struggle over hegemony in places and spaces. More specifically, geopolitics relates to the control of territory as well as to the representation of spaces and places and their interpretation, for instance, as “last frontiers” or “military arenas”. In reaction to the political (re-)application of the term, in the early 1980s, the critical academic debates on global strategy and geopolitical practices expanded. Scholars associated with journals like Political Geography, Antidote, and the aforementioned Herodote started to rethink the concept of geopolitics. Similar to the European and United States-American plans to dominate Latin America, the categories of Classical Geopolitics can also be observed in the thinking of Latin American political leaders. The main foci of Brazilian geopolitics were and still are the use and the protection of its large territory as well as its long Atlantic coast in terms of trade and security.
