tellurocracy

Noun

tellurocracy (countable and uncountable, plural tellurocracies)

1. Dominance or supremacy due to military or commercial power on land.
   • 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...2000, Farhad Tolipov, “Geopolitical Stalemate in Afghanistan”, in Central Asia and the Caucasus
   • 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, Alexander Dugin, Last War of the World-Island: The Geopolitics of Contemporary Russia, →ISBN
2. A state whose power derives from landbased military or commercial supremacy.
   • The "thalassocracy" here is the United States and its allies; the "tellurocracy" is Eurasia.2001, Rénéo Lukic, Michael Brint, Culture, politics, and nationalism in the age of globalization, →ISBN, page 103
   • 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...2008, Russian Politics and Law - Volume 46, page 15