New Thinking of Geopolitics and Great Game

Traditional geopolitics is a geopolitics of concentration based on nation states and military power. The competition for space has been a struggle in behalf of possession for good territory. Sovereign states have been a physical and legal violence historically. Geopolitics is an academic discipline of super powers only that have a dominant position in a global world. This means balance of power system among nations and it causes the murder of a human life and destruction of a human dignity in a real world. Globalization does need transformation of a traditional geopolitics because of its multi-level orders. This paper pursues to change from military power centered geopolitics with hard resources to human centered it with soft resources composed of economy, culture, thought, information, and intelligence technology. The era of new thinking on geopolitics is coming beyond geopolitics by violence and war. From perspective of upon geopolitics of intervention-diffusion and the more, the better space to human life can be formed via peaceful methods and devices. In this respect, the possibility of human centered global geopolitics is searched through reinterpretation process of great games as an ideal type.