Legal theory of C. Schmitt and modern geopolitics
The article concerns the research of the legal doctrine of the German lawyer and philosopher Carl Schmitt and the analysis of the influence of his ideas on contemporary geopolitics. The concept of the space of Earth is defined as the original source of law and a fundamental statute determined by the geographic features of the country. Particular attention is paid to the concept of sustained geopolitical contradictions between land and sea civilizations. Consideration is given to transformations of geopolitical ideas. Present-day Russia's main directions of geopolitical strategy are worked out.