Demons working silently in the sanctuaries of contemporary defensive national structures, in the ranks of politicians, in the laboratories of wealth distribution among nations and people, in the study halls of spirit, art, and culture, in what Mazis aptly calls the ‘four pillars of power’. Four components of power.

And he does not forget Pythagoras, Thales, and Archimedes: his mathematical education at the National Technical University of Athens mobilizes him. He strives to bring down the fire of Mathematics into his Systemic Geopolitics. He processes the Geographic Space and Geographic Time. He analyzes Spatiality to capture its mysteries. He develops the model of spacetime and does not succumb to the convenient, flexible tolerance of postmodern ‘narrative’.

In this way, the geography of the reconfiguration of power, Geopolitics, becomes the oldest cradle of human intellectual life. The protean myth reflects the multidimensional function that evolves from prehistory to the history of Man. The related companionship of the invention of tools also confirms that the myth speaks of the Mind's invasion into the world of Nature and Man.

Mazis's metatheoretical scrutiny of the paradigms for studying international events—those of International Relations and Geopolitics—as seen in this hefty work at hand is desperate and harsh. He struggles to become protean, while he certainly succeeds in being ‘Promethean’.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]