Abstract
What is ethnogeopolitics and how old is it? These are questions that we encounter a lot. The
Association for the Study of EthnoGeoPolitics is seven years, almost eight years, old, and our journal is five years, almost six years old. In this jubilee number I want to express my gratefulness to our readers, authors, editors, and benevolent followers on behalf of the full governing board of Association for the Study of EthnoGeoPolitics and editorial board of our journal entitled Forum of EthnoGeoPolitics. Ethnogeopolitics could be regarded as an old practice as there is evidence of its practice throughout history. The practice of ethnogeopolitical policies requires certain studies, and
reflection. The Soviet Nationalities Policy, and its resulting hierarchic ethnoterritorial system as well as its intensive engagement with linguistic, religious and generally ethnic affairs, has generated a precedence of ethnogeopolitics since early Bolshevik rule in the Soviet Union. However, ethnogeopolitics is older than that; the Tsarist Russian, the Ottoman and different Iranian empires had policies which could be regarded as ethnogeopolitical.
