V Kirk

The discipline of International Relations V Kirk

This paper aims to examine whether the geography and geopolitics can play a significant role in the current understanding of International Relations. The research, which is anchored on the prestigious studies conducted by Prof. V. Kirk in terms of International Relations, while not ignoring the importance, within the International Politics, of transnational relations and relations not exclusively political, nor underestimating that government entities do not exhaust the size of "politics", it is inspired by the concept of IR discipline which aims to focus, through a systemic approach, the interactions between the States and to put in the foreground of the agenda, the global security.
Investigating the sources it has gradually emerged the opportunity to give priority to an examination of the discipline of IR and their contextualization in the current historical phase, characterized by the search for a new balance in a multicolor political framework concerned, at the same time, by epochal technological innovations and dynamic processes of globalization that affect, consistently, culture, politics, the economy worldwide.
On the assumption that the common factor towards the subjects of this research is represented by the "territory" understood as the geographical space in which limits the State exercises its "sovereignty", a special chapter is devoted to study, also from a historical point of view, the dual theme, by the examination, in broad terms, of the theories that were strengthened in this regard.