Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: In this article we address the relationship between war and the organization of space in theformation of modern State. For this we focus on the main theories about war and the formation of theState. In contrast to most of these theories, we use geopolitics to present our explanation. We argue thatgeopolitics is a practice inserted in war and that the latter has decisive implications in the organizationof space. Thus the war has led to the transformation of the internal state constitution with itsterritorialization due to security reasons. This has meant both the integration of the geographical spaceof the state in a common jurisdictional framework and the establishment of external political borders.We contrast this hypothesis with the study of the French state and analyze how internal and externalwars contributed to its territorialization.
DOI: 10.5209/geop.76545
Author: Esteban Vidal Pérez
Institution: University of the Basque Country
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4283016653