Geoculture, geopolitics and geoeconomics are considered three battlefields that are influencing the order of global politics, economy, and culture, as well as the configuration of the world system. Religion and ethnicity form what might be called the "cultural double helix" of a geocultural entity, shaping cultures and international systems in ways that transcend time and national borders. Understanding this dynamics is critically important to efforts to meet new challenges and seize on new opportunities. This volume applies this analytical framework to Southeast Asia and neighboring regions.
Geocultural factors play a significant role in the construction of international geopolitics, geo-economy (e.g., regional integration), and interstate relations. The spiritual values and shared ideas based on religion can transcend national boundaries and play a role in constructing geocultural and interstate relations.
Introduction Geoculture: The Unignorable Challenges to International
Politics from Social Traditions Culture and International Politics
Geoculture on the "Civilizational Fault Line" Studies of the Basic
Geocultural Theory The Social Construction Mechanism of Geoculture: In the
Case of Such Construction by Ethnicity and Religion in the Indochina
Peninsula Ethnicity and Religion: The Fuzzy Dual Dimensions in the
Construction of Geoculture Geoculture for the Construction of the Culture
of the International System: From the National Level to the Supranational
Level Geoculture and Its Construction Mechanism: Its Constitutive Role in
the Theory and Practice of International Politics and Social Relations The
Lockean and Kantian Cultures that Should Not Be Hidden: The Social
Construction from Within the Actor.
Zhou Ya (b. 1975), Ph.D., Associate Professor of College of Ethnology and Sociology Director of Palm-Leaf Culture Research Center, Yunnan University.