The geopolitical maps of the Romanian identity. The ethnogenesis

The article discusses the issue of geopolitics and geo-history and their beginnings in Romania, through the works of thinkers such as Ion Conea, Anton Golopenția, Gheorghe Brătianu, Mircea Vulcănescu and Sabin Manuilă, done mostly during the Second World War, in “Geopolitics and Geohistory. The Romanian Journal for South-East Europe” (1941-1944). These applied sciences generate a constant need for a situational awareness which, in its turn, is consisted of five critical elements: 1. the border, 2. power projection, 3. economic vitality abroad, 4. some degree of autarchy, 5. political independence. The present paper argues that geopolitics is not only a matter of foreign policy, but also about the internal coherence of a society. Further, a synthetic case study on the Romanian Ethnic Space is compiled with the help of several geopolitical maps which show the ethnogenesis during a timeframe starting from the pre-Roman period until the 10th century.