Abstract
This paper lays out a geopolitical case study on the relations between Portugal, Russia and the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). Within this framework, the objectives are ambitious and extensive: to describe and to interpret geopolitics of Russia; to propose a geopolitical approach to Portugal taking into consideration its tradition, and to suggest practical outcomes from it; a general hint towards the transformation of CPLP into a Lusophone block; and finally to criticize the current Portuguese foreign policy.
Concerning methodology, mixed methods from both qualitative and quantitative strategies of inquiry are used, in order to correspond to a pragmatic Worldview. The effort was accomplished from the perspective that accepts a priori the theory of «Portugal as a Sea Power» in way to test its usefulness through an interaction with several formulated hypotheses.
A particular new aspect brought by this text concerns to something that is designated as the “Diamond of the Lusophone Block”.