Geopolitics and Geographies

Abstract

A geopolitical analysis of Latin America taking geography into account must start from the disparities in settlement that oppose «full» and «empty» regions, taking into account the natural data and the modalities of the historical occupation of the continent. This analysis must, however, be completed by an analysis of the axes that link the former by crossing the latter, and new routes have appeared in recent decades. These approaches finally allow for a synthesis in two forms, a modernised version of the traditional regional synthesis sketch and a more streamlined diagram of the continent’s poles, axes and transnational spaces.