Assess the influence of technology on geopolitics. What kind of technological innovations have enough potential to change or even eliminate the importance of geopolitical factors?
The twenty-first century has witnessed an unprecedented acceleration of the social and as a consequence scientific and technological progress. Nowadays, the rapid development of technologies is having enormous geopolitical consequences. Through the years, technological innovations have influenced the history events and shaken up geopolitical power. In the days of Winston Churchill, the transition of the Royal Navy from coal-burning to oil radically changed the course of World War I, which helped Entente gain the victory. The first industrial revolution that began
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In the industrial era aggressor tried to seize territories by destroying the industry and the means of production while in the information society, the main means of control became the control over the individual ideology and the management people’s world-view. Geopolitical goals constitute a capture of the strategic areas and the formation of large geopolitical zones of influence. Currently, military strategies give way to a strategy of ‘indirect actions’ and ‘soft power’ which are hidden from the eyes of the uninitiated behind a veil of ideological myths and political technologies. Due to the huge potential devastation from the usage of modern weapons, the war has become an impermissible luxury. Therefore, at the heart of international politics is now placed conservation of resources in the occupied territories (natural, economic and human) which could then be used by the winner. Globalization has shown that in the modern society particularly valuable domination in information, economic and financial spheres which make it possible to gain access to resources around the world by non-military ways and without a use of