THE ROLE OF THE DEMOGRAPHIC VECTOR IN MAXIMISING THE POWER OF STATE ACTORS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Over time, the population, alongside the land and resources, has been the most powerful vector of state power. The larger the population of a state was, the stronger the state was. However, since ancient times, it has been proved that only these three indicators, among which the most important is the people, are not enough. In this context, the author underlines the functions and roles of the people as a vector of power. Thus, the vector population must be analysed from the perspective of a geopolitical realism that is omnipresent in nature. At European level, but not only, a new realism is prefigured, which requires a liberation from the Munich-type pragmatism that caused the failure of the Second World War and the Vietnam one or, more recently, the Afghan and Iraq ones, which largely determines the pillars of insecurity and instability of today.