tellurocracy

English

Etymology

From telluro- +‎ -cracy.

Noun

tellurocracy (countable and uncountable, plural tellurocracies)

1. (geopolitics, military) Dominance or supremacy due to military or commercial power on land.

   Coordinate term: thalassocracy

   • 2000, Farhad Tolipov, “Geopolitical Stalemate in Afghanistan”, in Central Asia and the Caucasus:

     Probably the United States has realized, a bit too late, that its stake on a pro-Pakistan regime in Afghanistan had been a mistake. Obviously, this was done not for the sake of stake itself: the strategic aim was to penetrate the Heartland. From the point of view of the tellurocracy versus thalassocracy opposition a maritime power (the US) may entrench itself in the IRAFPAK zone.

   • 2015, Alexander Dugin, Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia, →ISBN:

     Historically, Russians did not immediately realize the significance of their location and only accepted the baton of tellurocracy after the Mongolian conquests of Ghengis Khan, whose empire was a model of tellurocracy.

   • 2015, Patricia Anne Simpson, Helga Druxes, Digital Media Strategies of the Far Right in Europe and the United States, →ISBN:

     A union of Russia and several different Asian countries would represent the cultural values of tellurocracy, in opposing the movement toward neo-liberal globalization that is at the center of the constellation of maritime powers that is guided by the United States.

2. (geopolitics) A state whose power derives from landbased military or commercial supremacy.
   • 2001, Rénéo Lukic, Michael Brint, Culture, politics, and nationalism in the age of globalization, →ISBN, page 103:

     The "thalassocracy" here is the United States and its allies; the "tellurocracy" is Eurasia.

   • 2008, Russian Politics and Law - Volume 46, page 15:

     In his works Dugin draws the picture of an ancient confrontation between the Atlantic oceanic powers ("talassocracies"), whose roots go back to the drowned continent of Atlantis and which are headed today by the mondialist United States, and the Eurasian continental powers ("tellurocracies"), whose roots lie in the mythical country of "Hyperborea," the most important of which today is Russia.

   • 2014, D Cristea, L Dumitrescu, “The Conservative Vector of Russia's Geopolitics at the Start of the New Millennium”, in Political Science & International Relations, volume 11, number 2:

     If thalassocracies are defined as democratic, commercial and pragmatic, tellurocracies are ideocratic, with a hierarchical organization and guided by a religious ideal.