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Tellurocracy (from

Latin: tellus, lit. 'land' and Greek: κράτος, romanized: krátos, lit. 'state') is a concept proposed by Aleksandr Dugin to describe a type of civilization or state system that is defined by the development of land territories and consistent penetration into inland territories. Tellurocratic states possess a set state-territory in which the state-forming ethnic majority lives, around this territory further land expansion occurs. Tellurocracy is conceived of as an antonym to thalassocracy
.

Most states display an amalgam of tellurocratic and thalassocratic features. In

Sultanate of Muscat was thalassocratic, but the Imamate of Oman
was landlocked and purely tellurocratic. It could be suggested that most or all landlocked states are tellurocracies.

Defining tellurocracy

Tellurocracies are generally not purely tellurocratic. In particular, most large tellurocracies have coastlines and not just inland territories, unlike thalassocracies, which historically would generally only have coastlines, and not inland territories. This makes it difficult to define what exactly a tellurocracy is.

For example, the Mongols

Russian America (now Alaska) after it reached a point where it could no longer expand eastward by land. Likewise, the United States acquired Alaska and incorporated many islands and the Panama Canal Zone after it could no longer expand westward. It is also worth noting that the largely tellurocratic, continental Australia, founded as a group of thalassocratic colonies, now holds its own island territories outside of its mainland, such as Christmas Island
.

Historical tellurocracies

Many empires of antiquity are noted for being more tellurocratic than their rivals, such as the early

Carthaginian Empire, which later as the Roman and Byzantine Empires became a rather thalassocratic, yet still quite tellurocratic rival to the quite purely tellurocratic Parthian and Sasanian Empires
.

Dugin's theory

In Alexandr Dugin's theory of tellurocracy,

Brazilian Empire
, have come into being elsewhere.

In practice, all these qualities are not always present. Moreover, certain peoples and states evolve over time in one direction or another. Russia before the

Australian Outback
and inland Africa, etc.).

Dugin based his concept on the works of the crown jurist of the

Third Reich and theorist of geopolitics, Carl Schmitt. He associates tellurocracy with Eurasianism, in contrast to a perceived association of thalassocracy with Atlanticism
.

Notes

  1. ISBN 9780754614364. Retrieved 2015-10-12. Dugin
    defines 'thalassocracy' as 'power exercised thanks to the sea,' opposed to 'tellurocracy' or 'power exercised thanks to the land' [...]. The 'thalassocracy' here is the United States and its allies; the 'tellurocracy' is Eurasia.
  2. ^ "Alexander Dugin: Eurasianism and the Tellurocracy-Thalassocracy Distinction". 31 December 2020.

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