This Table of Contents summarises the structure of Thucydidean Geopolitics, moving from conceptual foundations to applied geopolitical analysis and regional case studies.
The book is structured in three broad movements: conceptual foundations, applied geopolitical analysis, and regional case studies, supported throughout by analytical appendices.
Front Matter Title Page; Copyright and ISBN; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; On Geopolitical Nomenclature and Taxonomy; Methodological Note on Thucydidean Analogies
Chapter 1 — Overview of Thucydidean Geopolitics Enduring lessons on power and conflict — Fear, Honour, and Interest as the core triad — the desire for Dominance — the Thucydidean Trap — Voids of power — non-state actors and proxies — Thucydidean archetypes of land and sea power.
Chapter 1 Appendix: Causality and Its Evolution
Chapter 2 — Realist Thought and Fractal Geopolitics From Machiavelli, Hobbes, Clausewitz, Morgenthau, Bismarck, and Spykman to contemporary realism — The concept of Fractal Geopolitics — Self-similarity, recursion, and complexity across scales.
Chapter 2 Appendices: (I) Thinkers and Their Geopolitical Milieus — (II) Thucydides, Realism, and Constructivism — (III) Pseudo-NGOs and Power Politics
Chapter 3 — Thucydidean Principles The Triad revisited — Dominance, hubris, peace as interlude — Clusters of calamities from antiquity to the modern world.
Chapter 4 — Voids of Power Power vacuums as engines of instability — The role of populations — Modern manifestations, with a case study in the extended Levant.
Chapter 5 — Thucydides and the Modern World Vectorial and fractal readings of the Triad — Rivalry across levels — Great powers, middle powers, proxies, and the strategic dilemmas of the twenty-first century.
Chapter 5 Appendices: (I) Post-1945 World Order — (II) Mantineia; Taiwan
Chapter 6 — Globalisation and the Fragmentation of Power Ideological diffusion — Social media — Contemporary geopolitics under a Thucydidean lens.
Chapter 7 — The European Union as a Geopolitical Dwarf Internal equilibrium — External dependencies — Relations with major powers — Structural limits.
Chapter 7 Appendices: (I) The Myth of an Existential Russian Threat — (II) Sino-European Alignment — (III) Greek–Russian Relations
Chapter 8 — The War in Ukraine A modern Thucydidean tragedy — Fear, Honour, Interest — Alliance dynamics — Alternative interpretations — Regional consequences.
Chapter 8 Appendices: (I) Russia and the ‘Russian Soul’ — (II) Ukrainian Rare Earths — (III) Abandoning Allies
Chapter 9 — Post-Assad Syria Civil war — Fragmentation — External intervention — Speculative post-conflict architectures.
Chapter 9 Appendices: (I) Alexandretta — (II) Quadritomised Syria
Chapter 10 — Greco-Turkish Rivalry Comparative geopolitics — Strategic cultures and alliances — Eastern Mediterranean dynamics — Thucydidean synthesis.
Appendices: (I) Turkish Strategic Doctrines — (II) Kitsikis' Greco-Turkish Confederation — (III) Lausanne — (IV) Maritime Zones
Chapter 11 — Turkish Neo-Ottomanism The Eastern Question revisited — Ideology — Regional expansion — Africa, and Greece as counterweight.
Chapter 12 — Latin American Geopolitics External pressures — China — The United States — The European Union — The Melian dilemma.
Chapter 13 — Anschluss: Power, Strategy, and Sovereignty Historical archetypes and contemporary analogies — Greenland — Canada — Panama
Chapter 14 — On the Appropriation of Gaza Power — Feasibility — Limits — Legal-historical context.
Chapter 14 Appendix: Uti possidetis juris and the Birth of Israel
Chapter 15 — African Geopolitics: A Thucydidean View Great-power competition — Regional dynamics — Detailed case studies across: the Horn — Sudan — Sahel — Maghreb; Egypt — The Arab Spring.
Chapter 16 — The Turkey–Russia–Iran Connection The Levant — Caucasus — Central Asia — Balances of distrust.
Chapter 17 — Strategic Interconnectors in the Eastern Mediterranean IMEC — GREGY — Emerging corridors.
Chapter 18 — Israel: Strategic Centrality and Enduring Insecurity Geography — Alliances — Pressure — Counterfactual scenarios.
Chapter 19 — South Asian Rivalries and Dilemmas China and India — India and Pakistan
Chapter 19 Appendix: Asian maritime chokepoints
Epilogue: The Observer and Geopolitical Reality
The Author: A Modern Encyclopedist
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