Значение Каспия и его правового статуса в контексте геополитических учений К. Хаусхофера и А. Мэхэна

The role of Caspian Sea and its legal status in the context of geopolitical doctrines by K. Haushofer and A. Mahan

The article is about problem of interpretation Caspian Sea’s status with a view to geopolitical dualism. Duality of approaches to the same object takes shape by dichotomy of conceptions “land” and “sea”. Their sense difference forms many-sided but integral idea about meaning of the Caspian Sea at the same time, in historic-political and geostrategic aspects. Caspian Sea appears here like the object of regional, also international geopolitics. So on the one hand, the partition of basin is the item of geopolitical areasʹ distribution under conditions regional statesʹ national interests. On the other hand, Caspian Sea displays itself valuable like important element of political and strategical littoral statesʹ potential. There was arisen particular dual understanding of basin in the context of the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. Conceptions of “water space” and “seabed and minerals” receive specific political and legal interpretation. This way conceptual dualism notion of “sea” in policy causes meaning of the Caspian Sea like the object of active open geopolitical dialog that has historical base, but it has been changing in time and actualizing permanently.