Prof' Dr' Zlatko Isakovic

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Prof. Dr. Zlatko Isakovic

• Institute for European Studies, Belgrade
• TERRITORY AND POPULATION AS ELEMENTS OF THE
  POLITICAL POWER

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• Political power is ability to rule, mainly
  implying the ability to impose ones will upon
  another, which is often but not always achieved
  through use of force, i.e. coercion, to achieve
  ones own goals and interests.

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• In this case we refer to political power composed
  of the following elements
• Population,
• Territory,
• Tconomic strenght,
• Torce (police, military, etc.),
• Political system,
• Ideology and morale, and
• Communication power.

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1 Territory

• The basic characteristics are the following
• Quantitative - size,
• Quality (mainly economic values of the area),
• Geographical position (neighbors and borders).

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2 Population

• The basic characteristics are the following
• Quantitative number of people
• Qualitative structure of the population
• Sex,
• Age,
• Occupation, incomes, etc.
• Education,
• Health,
• Race, ethnicity, etc.

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• Link beween territory and population People
  need space for living.

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3 Main conclusions

• Mutual comparisons between the size of areas and
  the number of the population is relatively easy
  to make, while it is much harder to make it when
  one takes into account the qualitative
  characteristics of the two elements of the
  political power.

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• The question remains of a price (human lives,
  health, living standards, etc.) worth to be paid
  for a territory in negotiations, wars.
• People are subjective factors of the political
  power in international and national relations and
  of the communication revolution in particular.
• Thanks to the communication revolution the Earth
  became much smaller, interconnected and
  perceived by majority of its population as the
  global village, and their only domicile and
  shelter.

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• In XXI century people will more and more become
  nomads, and their ideas and goods will move ever
  more rapidly and increase in quantity.
• Thus, the relationship between the population and
  territory will be weakened. The importance of
  state territories will decrease, while the
  population will always need space for living.

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• People will remain the subjective element of
  political power, of domestic, international, and
  global relations.
• Territory will remain an element of political
  power.
• Political power is changing and will most likely
  become global. There are several theories about
  future development of political power or some or
  of its elements or parts of them, such as
  deterritorialization, greater of communication
  power and police force.

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• Prof. Dr. Zlatko Isakovic
• Professorial FellowInstitute for European
  StudiesBelgrade, Serbia
• Full ProfessorInternational University, Faculty
  of the Humanistic SciencesNovi Pazar, Belgrade
  Department
• Email isa_at_bitsyu.net
• zlatkoi_at_diplomacy.bg.ac.rs