The Select Methods of Investigations in Geostrategy and Geopolitics

Abstract

After the years of silence and after avoidance of geopolitical researches and its subdisciplines, a renascence of his knowledge has come out. In the latest past years, we can notice a conspicuous increase of interest in nearly all kinds of researches, which are made by political geographers including people who deal with geostrategical and geopolitical problems. When we talk about Poland we must say that the increased interest is a result of breaking a kind of taboo - taboo, which refereed to the works of this sphere. Firstly, that the works were connected with the Third Reich polities and propaganda, and secondly, because of the easy way of censorship explanation, very common while making controversial studies in Poland during communistic times. The past ten years were abounding in accidents connected with boarder's changes and changes of geopolitical and geostrategical circumstances. Also, this is a period of time when the USSR fell into pieces, the European Community came into being, the process of globalisation has been progressing, and equally, a strong separatist and national movements have been developing not only in Europe. So, it's natural that interest in those problems has been native. Leaving back the classical fields of political geography, for instance: electoral geography or ecopolitic, we can surly state, we are just victims of a dynamic investigate development. The development refers to the rest geopolitical ranges - geostrategy and geopolitics, in particular. Because of that fount, it seems to be useful to tide up some notions connected with there disciplines and indicate the basic exploring methods of the occurrences shown in geostrategical and geopolitical works. To tide up all this vast matter - both subdisciplines have interdisciplinary character - a returning to the roots of those disciplines and indicating the original investigated methods were decided - particularly those which were dominated during the Second World War - were put into practise by the general geopolitical and geostrategical research workers. Next, J am going to present the research methods in English spoken countries and in comparison to them, currents researches being made in Poland. My intention is indicate the most common using of conceptions, investigated methods and talking about them in critical way in the aspect of geopolitical and geostrategical research development in Poland and Europe, especially the central Europe.