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The Conceptual Development of Power in the Global Geopolitical System

Power has always had an important role in shaping social relations throughout human history. Dominant geopolitical frameworks have been dependent for centuries upon environmental determinism and physical, hardware and objectivist aspects of power. In recent decades, however, dominant frameworks have been challenged as the emphasis has shifted on to other dimensions of power, namely its software and subjectivist aspects and also to smart power. The latest theories of geopolitics seek to move beyond purely determinist and positivist thoughts and exploit new concepts, or those borrowed from other sciences, in order to explain and elaborate geopolitical conceptions and phenomena including the concept of power itself.This article seeks to answer the following question " " What are the signs of the conceptual development of power in the discourse of geopolitics during its different evolutionary epochs?" In this process, such elements as thought, subjectivity, cognition and spheres of conflict or cooperation are the major players and stage-managers of the discourse of geopolitics. This shows that the fact that the new geopolitics has been shaped along the lines of thought and discursive frameworks.