Abstract:
The article deals with a problem linked to the figurative perception of the geographic space in geopolitics. For the purpose has been tracked the evolution of the geopolitical attitude toward space from objective to subjective with tracing leading role of post-structuralism as a key methodology in the postmodern geopolitics. Affected are the attributes that make up the formation of the geopolitical image of the space: geopolitical identification and identity; geopolitical discourse; archetypes. There is provided a system-representative model of geopolitical image of the space, which testifies to the constructive conceptualization, implied as an idea in the article. The model synthesizes main details, forming the geopolitical vision of the space, which are projected onto its geopolitical image in subordinate dependence. With this model, we defend the idea of launching a constructive algorithm that adequately structures the process of forming a geopolitical image of space. It could meet the contemporary needs to systematize empirical knowledge of the subject in order to obtain more accurate, given the subjectivized results of the matter.